Adaptive optics and the Keck observatory

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 12-19

  Wizinowich, Peter L ^a  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEM; KECK OBSERVATORY; KECK TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 21344467186     PISSN: 10946969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2005.1438839     Document Type: Article

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