Design and expected performance of the 6.5 m MMT MCAO system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 578-587

  Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Milton, N Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser guide stars; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Rayleigh beacons; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH LASER GUIDE STARS (RLGS);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038737078     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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