The LINC-NIRVANA fringe and flexure tracking system: Differential piston simulation and detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1454-1462

  Bertram, Thomas ^a   Andersen, David R ^b   Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^c   Straubmeier, Christian ^a   Eckart, Andreas ^a   Beckmann, Udo ^d   Herbst, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential piston; Fringe Tracker; LBT; LINC NIRVANA; OPD; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIMULATORS;

DIFFERENTIAL PISTON; FRINGE TRACKER; LBT; LINC-NIRVANA; OPD;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 11144331364     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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