Fast optimal wavefront reconstruction for multi-conjugate adaptive optics using the Fourier domain preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7487-7498

  Vogel, Curtis R ^a   Yang, Qiang ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHM; FOURIER DOMAIN PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHM (FD-PCG); MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS (MCAO); TRANSFORMATION PROBLEMS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33747751283     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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