The Laser Guide Star Facility for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Joyce, Richard ^a   Boyer, Corinne ^b   Daggert, Larry ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent ^b   Hileman, Edward ^a   Hunten, Mark ^a   Liang, Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star; TMT

Indexed keywords

GEMINI TELESCOPES; LASER GUIDE STARS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPES (TMT);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749361596     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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