Progress with UnISIS: A Rayleigh laser guided adaptive optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 90-96

  Thompson, Laird A ^a,d   Teare, Scott W ^b   Xiong, Yao Heng ^c   Chakraborty, Abhijit ^a   Gruendl, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; High contrast imaging; Pupil masks; Rayleigh laser guide stars; Seeing prediction

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASERS; MASKS; MIRRORS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RAYLEIGH FADING; TESTING; WAVEFRONTS;

HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING; PUPIL MASKS; RAYLEIGH LASER GUIDE STARS; SEEING PREDICTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144336530     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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