Design of ground-layer turbulence compensation with a Rayleigh beacon

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 870-878

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a   Thomas, Sandrine ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^a   Van Der Bliek, Nicole ^a   Schurter, Patricio ^a   Cantarutti, Rolando ^a   Mondaca, Eduardo ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Star; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; HEAT LOSSES; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST); LASER GUIDE STAR; MECHANICAL DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144274463     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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