Laser guide star multi-conjugate adaptive optics performance of the Thirty Meter Telescope with elongated beacons and matched filtering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gilles, Luc ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent ^a   Véran, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project Office   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor nonlinearity; Sodium laser guide star elongation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATED SODIUM BEACONS; INFRARED ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; SHACK HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSOR NONLINEARITY; SODIUM LASER GUIDE STAR ELONGATION;

DIFFRACTION; INFRARED IMAGING; KALMAN FILTERING; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749381838     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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