Lessons learned from the first adaptive secondary mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5169, Issue , 2003, Pages 79-89

  Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Brusa, Guido ^a   Wildi, François ^a   Miller, Douglas ^a   Fisher, Donald ^a   Riccardi, Armando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Osservatorio Astrofisico di Spat   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary mirrors; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; RETROFITTING; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRROR; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GROUND-LAYER ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 1842556407     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.507316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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