The adaptive secondary mirrors for the Large Binocular Telescope: A progress report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1564-1571

  Riccardi, A ^a   Brusa, G ^b   Xompero, M ^a   Zanotti, D ^a   Del Vecchio, C ^a   Salinari, P ^a   Ranfagni, P ^a   Gallieni, D ^c   Biasi, R ^d   Andrighettoni, M ^d   Miller, S ^b   Mantegazza, P ^e  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ADS International Srl   (Italy)

^d Microgate srl   (Italy)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive secondary; Wavefront correctors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; BINOCULARS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY (AS) MIRRORS; CO-LOCATED CAPACITIVE SENSORS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE (LBT); WAVEFRON CORRECTORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 19944367247     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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