Wavefront sensing and adaptive optics in strong turbulence

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5827, Issue , 2005, Pages 23-29

  Mackey, Ruth ^a   Dainty, Chris ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Scintillation; Strong turbulence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SCINTILLATION; SENSORS; TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL FIELD; STRONG TURBULENCE; ZENITH ANGLES;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 27744540581     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.605071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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