Field tests of wavefront sensing with multiple Rayleigh laser guide stars and dynamic refocus

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1021-1032

  Stalcup Jr , Thomas E ^a   Georges III, James A ^a   Snyder, Miguel ^a   Baranec, Christoph ^a   Putnam, Nicole ^a   Milton, Mark ^a   Angel, Roger ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Tomography; Beacon; Dynamic Refocus; Focal Anisoplanatism; Laser Guide Stars; Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics; Rayleigh

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC REFOCUS; FOCAL ANISOPLANATISM; LASER GUIDE STARS; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; RAYLEIGH BEACON;

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144281794     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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