Multiconjugate adaptive optics: Laboratory experience

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1689-1699

  Langlois, M ^b   Saunter, C D ^a   Dunlop, C N ^a   Myers, R M ^a   Love, G D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEAN OPTICS; MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 3042551236     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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