Experimental results of ground-layer and tomographic wavefront reconstruction from multiple laser guide stars

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 7541-7551

  Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Baranec, Christoph ^a   Milton, N Mark ^a   Snyder, Miguel ^a   Stalcup, Thomas ^a   Angel, J Roger P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TELESCOPES; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRONIC SHUTTERING; SHACK-HARTMANN SENSOR; SINGLE DETECTORS; TOMOGRAPHIC MODES;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 33747787351     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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