Increasing the bandwidth of a liquid crystal phased array adaptive optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5894, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-6

  Dayton, David ^a   Browne, Steve ^b   Gonglewski, John ^c  

^a APPLIED TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Nematic Liquid Crystal

Indexed keywords

GREENWOOD FREQUENCY; LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SATELLITES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 29344433458     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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