Design and expected performance of an MCAO system for the giant Magellan telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5169, Issue , 2003, Pages 238-249

  Milton, N Mark ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Cheng, Andrew ^a   Georges III, James A ^a   Angel, J Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING;

GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE; GIANT SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPE; MULTI CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842451734     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.511742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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