The VLTI fringe sensors: FINITO and PRIMA FSU

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 528-539

  Gai, Mario ^a   Menardi, Serge ^b   Cesare, Stefano ^c   Bauvir, Bertrand ^b   Bonino, Donata ^a   Corcione, Leonardo ^a   Dimmler, Martin ^b   Massone, Giuseppe ^a   Reynaud, François ^d   Wallander, Anders ^b  

^a Osserv Astron Torino   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: high angular resolution; Instrumentation: interferometers; Techniques: interferometric

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTROPHYSICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFRARED IMAGING; INSTALLATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; SENSORS;

FRINGE TRACKING; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; PHASE REFERENCED IMAGING AND MICROARCSECOND ASTROMETRY (PRIMA); SPECTRAL DISPERSION;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 19944404714     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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