Experimental verification of dispersed fringe sensing as a segment phasing technique using the Keck Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1061-1073

  Shi, Fang ^a   Ohara, Catherine M ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b   Troy, Mitch ^a   Redding, Dave C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Segmented mirrors; Wavefront sensing, dispersed fringe sensor

Indexed keywords

DISPERSED FRINGE SENSORS; SEGMENTED MIRRORS; WAVEFRONT SENSING; WAVELENGTHS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TESTING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444260512     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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