Some consequences of atmospheric dispersion for ELTs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 507-517

  Owner Petersen, Mette ^a   Goncharov, Alexander ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric dispersion; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; DISPERSIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; EXRTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; PHASE ERROR; STREHL RATIO;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10344267527     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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