A conceptual design for the thirty meter telescope adaptive optics systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ellerbroek, B L ^a   Boyer, C ^a   Bradley, C ^b   Britton, M C ^a   Browne, S ^c   Buchroeder, R A ^d   Carel, J L ^e   Cho, M K ^f   Chun, M R ^g   Clare, R ^a   Conan, R ^b   Daggert, L G ^f   Dekany, R G ^a   Elias, J H ^f   Erickson, D A ^h   Flicker, R ^i,j   Gavel, D T ^i,j   Gilles, L ^a   Hampton, P ^b   Herriot, G ^h   Hunten, M R ^f   Joyce, R R ^f   Liang, M ^f   Macintosh, B A ^k   Palomo, R ^l   Powell, I P ^h   Roberts, S C ^h   Ruch, E ^e   Sinquin, J C ^l   Smith, M J ^h   Stoesz, J A ^h   Troy, M ^m   Tyler, G A ^c   Veran, J P ^h   Vogel, C R ⁿ   Yang, Q ⁿ   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

^d Optical Design Service   (United Kingdom)

^e SAGEM   (France)

^f NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^h NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^l CILAS   (France)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE (TMT) PROJECT;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OBSERVATORIES; PRODUCT DESIGN;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749395977     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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