Solar multi-conjugate adaptive optics at the dunn solar telescope: Preliminary results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 59-66

  Langlois, Maud ^a   Moretto, Gil ^a   Richards, Kit ^a   Hegwer, Steve ^a   Rimmele, Thomas ^a  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

MCAO; Solar Adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; TELESCOPES; TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

GUIDING SUB-IMAGES; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); SOLAR ADAPTIVE OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHIC WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144256941     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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