Adaptive secondary mirror demonstrator: Construction and preliminary evaluation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1057-1062

  Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Walker, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Deformable mirror; Secondary mirror; Wavefront corrections

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038606294     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602446     Document Type: Article

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