OWL phase a status report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 391-406

  Dierickx, P ^a   Brunetto, E ^a   Comeron, F ^a   Gilmozzi, R ^a   Gonte, F ^a   Koch, F ^a   Le Louarn, M ^a   Monnet, G ^a   Spyromilio, J ^a   Surdej, I ^a   Verinaud, C ^a   Yaitskova, N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extremely Large Telescopes; OWL; Science objectives; Segments fabrication; Wavefront control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARRAYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS CERAMICS; INFRARED DEVICES; INVESTMENTS; SENSORS; SILICON CARBIDE; WAVEFRONTS;

EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); OWL; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES; SEGMENTS FABRICATION; WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444266685     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.556015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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