The control system for the Keck interferometer nuller

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6268 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Booth, Andrew J ^a   Colavita, M Mark ^a   Garcia, Jean I ^a   Koresko, Chris ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Nulling; Real time control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; INTERFEROMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES;

BRIGHT POINT SOURCE; CONTROL PRECISION; KECK INTERFEROMETER NULLER; NULLING;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33749013849     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.664522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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