Giant segmented adaptive mirrors: Progress report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 246-257

  Riccardi, A ^a   Biasi, R ^b   Brusa, G ^a,d   Del Vecchio, C ^a   Esposito, S ^a   Gallieni, D ^c   Salinari, P ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b Microgate srl   (Italy)

^c ADS Int Srl   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive primary mirrors; Extremely large telescopes; Giant telescopes; Wave front correctors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MIRRORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT CORRECTORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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