Scientific goals for the MMT's multi-laser-guided adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Stalcup, Thomas ^a   Baranec, Christoph ^a   Mark Milton, N ^a   Rademacher, Matt ^a   Snyder, Miguel ^a   Meyer, Michael ^a   Eisenstein, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide stars; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED IMAGING; GROUND LAYER CORRECTION; LASER GUIDE STARS (LSG); MULTI LASERS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749377218     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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