Atmospheric turbulence characterization with the Keck adaptive optics systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 813-824

  Schöck, Matthias ^a   Le Mignant, David ^b   Chanan, Gary A ^a   Wizinowich, Peter L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Differential image motion; Shack Hartmann wavefront sensors; Zernike decomposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ZERNIKE SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042542932     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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