MAPS, a turbulence simulator for MCAO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 794-804

  Kolb, Johann ^a   Marchetti, Enrico ^a   Tisserand, Stéphane ^b   Franza, Francis ^a   Delabre, Bernard ^a   Gonté, Frédéric ^a   Brast, Roland ^a   Jacob, Sophie ^b   Reversat, Fabien ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b SILIOS Technologies   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Ion etching; MCAO; Phase screens; Turbulence generator; VLT

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING;

ION ETCHING; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); PHASE SCREENS; TURBULENCE GENERATOR; VLT;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 10444238238     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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