Atmospheric turbulence characterization with the keck adaptive optics systems. I. Open-loop data

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3705-3720

  Schöck, Matthias ^a   Mignant, David Le ^b   Chanan, Gary A ^a   Wizinowich, Peter L ^b   Dam, Marcos A Van ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COHERENT LIGHT; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

WAVE-FRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042810796     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003705     Document Type: Article

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