Laser guide star upgrade of altair at Gemini North

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boccas, Maxime ^a   Rigaut, Francois ^a   Bec, Matthieu ^a   Irarrazaval, Benjamin ^a   James, Eric ^a   Ebbers, Angelic ^a   D'Orgeville, Celine ^a   Grace, Kenny ^a   Arriagada, Gustavo ^a   Karewicz, Stan ^a   Sheehan, Mike ^a   White, John ^a   Chan, Simon ^a  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide star; Natural guide star

Indexed keywords

ALTAIR; LASER GUIDE STAR (LGS); NATURAL GUIDE STAR(NGS); TIP TILT FOCUS SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFLECTION; WAVEFRONTS;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33749384123     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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