Whack-a-speckle: Focal plane wavefront sensing in theory and practice with a deformable secondary mirror and 5-micron camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kenworthy, Matthew A ^a   Hinz, Philip M ^a   Angel, J Roger P ^a   Heinze, Ari N ^a   Sivanandam, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Mid infra red; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR; FOCAL PLANE WAVEFRONT SENSING; MID INFRARED;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749365351     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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