Comparison of measurements of the outer scale of turbulence by three different techniques

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2316-2324

  Ziad, Aziz ^a   Schöck, Matthias ^b   Chanan, Gary A ^b   Troy, Mitchell ^c   Dekany, Richard ^d   Lane, Benjamin F ^e   Borgnino, Julien ^a   Martin, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES;

ANGLE-OF--ARRIVAL COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL-IMAGE-MOTION MEASUREMENTS; FRINGE SPEED MEASUREMENTS; GENERALIZED SEEING MONITOR; PALOMAR TESTBED INTERFEROMETER;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 2342597797     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002316     Document Type: Article

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