Robustness study of the pseudo open-loop controller for multiconjugate adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1003-1010

  Piatrou, Piotr ^a   Gilles, Luc ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ERRORS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SERVOMECHANISMS; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS (DM); MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); PSEUDO OPEN-LOOP CONTROL; STREHL RATIOS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 14844321248     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001003     Document Type: Article

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