MAD status report

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 236-247

  Marchetti, Enrico ^a   Brast, Roland ^a   Delabre, Bernard ^a   Donaldson, Rob ^a   Fedrigo, Enrico ^a   Frank, Christoph ^a   Hubin, Norbert ^a   Kolb, Johann ^a   Le Louarn, Miska ^a   Lizon, Jean Louis ^a   Oberti, Sylvain ^a   Reiss, Roland ^a   Santos, Joana ^a   Tordo, Sebastien ^a   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^b   Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^c   Baruffolo, Andrea ^d   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^e   Farinato, Jacopo ^b   Vernet, Elise ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Layer oriented MCAO; Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics systems; Wavefront sensors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

GUIDE STARS (GS); LAYER ORIENTED MCAO; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPATIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 19944400064     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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