Processing wave-front-sensor slope measurements using artificial neural networks

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 4238-4251

  Montera, Dennis A ^a,b   Welsh, Byron M ^a   Roggemann, Michael C ^a,b   Ruck, Dennis W ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric optics; Error level estimation; Error reduction; Neural networks; Wave front sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042131094     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004238     Document Type: Article

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