Emulation of dual-conjugate adaptive optics on an 8-m class telescope

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2231-2237

  Knutsson, Per A ^a   Owner Petersen, Mette ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; HOLOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; ISOPLANATIC PATCH; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 2542538326     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002231     Document Type: Article

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