Robust determination of optical path difference: Fringe tracking at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5173-5179

  Pedretti, Ettore ^a,b   Traub, Wesley A ^a   Monnier, John D ^b   Millan Gabet, Rafael ^c   Carleton, Nathaniel P ^a   Schloerb, F Peter ^d   Brewer, Michael K ^d   Berger, Jean Philippe ^e   Lacasse, Marc G ^a   Ragland, Sam ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FRINGE PACKET; FRINGE TRACKING; FRINGE-PACKET TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHMS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 25444488531     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005173     Document Type: Article

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