Prediction of wave-front sensor slope measurements with artificial neural networks

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 675-681

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

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric optics; Neural networks; Prediction; Wave front sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347583652     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000675     Document Type: Article

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