Turbulence profiler and seeing monitor for laser guide star adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 466-472

  Wilson, Richard W ^a   Saunter, Christopher D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Stars; Seeing; SLODAR; Turbulence Profile

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DIGITAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WAVEFRONTS;

LASER GUIDE STARS (LSG);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038398988     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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