Adaptive optics for the Euro50: Design and performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 36-46

  Goncharov, Alexander ^a   Owner Petersen, Mette ^a   Andersen, Torben ^a   Deckers, Jacques ^b   Devaney, Nicholas ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes; Multiconjugate adaptive optics; Optical design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038413990     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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