Scattered energy at the Starfire Optical Range 3.5 m adaptive optic telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 107-115

  Ryan, Patrick T ^a   Fugate, Robert Q ^a   Langlois, Maud P ^b   Sandler, David G ^b,c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ThermoTrex Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Exosolar planets

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LIGHT; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLANETS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC SEEINGS; CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES; EXOSOLAR PLANETS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; SCATTERED LIGHTS; STARFIRE OPTICAL RANGES; STREHL RATIOS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0039975377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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