Laboratory MCAO test-bed for developing wavefront sensing concepts

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5580-5590

  Goncharov, A V ^a   Dainty, J C ^a   Esposito, S ^b   Puglisi, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TURBULENCE;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS (DM); EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES (ELT); MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); WAVELENGTH SENSING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 22744439471     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005580     Document Type: Article

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