Common path interferometric wavefront sensor for extreme adaptive optics

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3491-3499

  Love, Gordon D ^a   Oag, Thomas J D ^a   Kirby, Andrew K ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE SHIFT; SCINTILLATION; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; PHASE-SHIFTED OUTPUTS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTORS; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 21244490825     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003491     Document Type: Article

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