A study of multiple guide stars to improve the performance of laser guide star adaptive optical systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 310-319

  De La Rue, Imelda A ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Anisoplanatism; Laser guide stars; Multiple laser guide stars

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; LASERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SODIUM; STARS; TURBULENCE;

ADAPTIVE-OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ANISOPLANATISM; ARRAY SIZES; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; GUIDE STARS; LASER GUIDE STARS; MULTIPLE LASER GUIDE STARS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH BEACONS; STREHL RATIOS; SUB APERTURES; TIP TILTS; TURBULENCE PROFILES;

SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

EID: 0042111398     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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