Temporal coherence of individual turbulent patterns in atmospheric seeing

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2000, Pages 4879-4885

  Kern, Brian ^a   Laurence, Ted A ^a   Martin, Chris ^a   Dimotakis, Paul E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SCINTILLATION; TURBULENCE;

TEMPORAL COHERENCE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0038506033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004879     Document Type: Article

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