Progress towards tomographic wavefront reconstruction using dynamically refocused Rayleigh laser beacons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1129-1137

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Tomography; Wavefront sensors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAM (CGH); LASER CALIBRATION; LASER PROJECTION SYSTEM; RAYLEIGH LASER BEACONS;

ABERRATIONS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; HOLOGRAMS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 11144347763     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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