Design of a combined adaptive optics mirror for fast compensation of low-order aberrations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5894, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Beresnev, Leonid ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric turbulence; Piezoelectric mirror

Indexed keywords

PIEZOELECTRIC MIRRORS; WAVEFRONT DISTORTIONS;

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 29344467416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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