Innovations within the Altair real-time wave-front reconstructor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1384-1392

  Saddlemyer, Leslie K ^a   Herriot, Glen ^a   Véran, Jean Pierre ^a   Smith, Malcolm ^a   Dunn, Jennifer ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Altair; Control systems; Off loading; Real time control; Reconstructors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVEFRONTS;

ALTAIR; OFF-LOADING; REAL-TIME CONTROL; WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144342773     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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