LING-NIRVANA -How to get a 23m wavefront nearly flat

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 527-534

  Gässler, Wolfgang ^a   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^a,b   Herbst, Tom M ^a   Andersen, D ^a   Arcidiacono, C ^b   Baumeister, H ^a   Beckmann, U ^d   Behrend, J ^d   Bertram, T ^c   Bizenberger, P ^a   Bohnhardt H ^a   Briegel, F ^a   Diolaiti, E ^b   Driebe, T ^d   Eckhardt, A ^c   Egner, Sebastian E ^a   Farinato, J ^b   Heininger, M ^d   Kurster M ^a   Laun, W ^a   Ligori, S ^a   Naranjo, V ^a   Nussbaum E ^d   Rix, H W ^a   Rohloff, R R ^a   Salinari, P ^b   Soci, R ^a   Storz, C ^a   Straubmeier, C ^c   Vernet Viard, E ^b   Weigelt, G ^d   Weiss, R ^a   Xu, W ^a   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fizeau Interferometry; LBT; LINC NIRVANA; Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CRYOSTATS; DETECTORS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); FIZEAU INTERFEROMETRY; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPES (LBT); LINC-NIRVANA;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 19944420101     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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