MACAO-VLTI piston issue: Achieving the interferometry requirements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1534-1545

  Ivǎnescu, Liviu ^a   Arsenault, Robin ^a   Fedrigo, Enrico ^a   Kasper, Markus ^a   Oberti, Sylvain ^a   Paufique, Jérôme ^a   Ströbele, Stefan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Bimorph; Deformable mirrors; Interferometry; MACAO; Piston; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPACITANCE; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; PISTONS; TELESCOPES;

BIMORPH; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; MACAO-VERY LARGE TELESCOPES INTERFEROMETER (VLTI); OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE (OPD); WAVE FRONT SENSORS (WFS);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144330057     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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