A visible MCAO channel for NIRVANA at the LBT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 536-543

  Ragazzoni, R ^a,b   Herbst, T M ^b   Gaessler, W ^b   Andersen, D ^b   Arcidiacono, C ^c   Baruffolo, A ^d   Baumeister, H ^b   Bizenberger, P ^b   Diolaiti, E ^d   Esposito, S ^a   Farinato, J ^a   Rix, H W ^b   Rohloff, R R ^b   Riccardi, A ^a   Salinari, P ^a   Soci, R ^b   Vernet Viard, E ^a   Xu, W ^b  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Interferometry; Multi conjugation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTERFEROMETRY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

NATURAL REFERENCE STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038398960     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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