Atmospheric compensation over a 2.3 km propagation path with a multi-conjugate (piston-MEMS/modal DM) adaptive system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5552, Issue , 2004, Pages 73-84

  Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Beresnev, Leonid ^b   Liu, Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric compensation; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Stochastic parallel gradient descent optimization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPENSATION; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPATIVE OPTICS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFRONT CORRECTOR;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 14944347317     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.561998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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