Adaptive-optics compensation by distributed beacons for non-Kolmogorov turbulence

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3441-3449

  Rao, Changhui ^a   Jiang, Wenhan ^a   Ling, Ning ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

CIRCULAR BEACON;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038502075     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003441     Document Type: Article

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