Numerical simulations of multiconjugate adaptive optics wave-front reconstruction on giant telescopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4811-4818

  Ellerbroek, Brent L ^a   Gilles, Luc ^b   Vogel, Curtis R ^c  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS (DM);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042788118     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004811     Document Type: Article

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