Multiple guide star tomography demonstration at Palomar observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Velur, V ^a   Flicker, R C ^b   Platt, B C ^c   Britton, M C ^a   Dekany, R G ^a   Troy, M ^c   Roberts, J E ^c   Shelton, J C ^c   Hickey, J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi Conjugate adaptive optics; Novel wavefront sensing; Tomography

Indexed keywords

MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NOVEL WAVEFRONT SENSING; WAVEFRONT INFORMATION; WAVEFRONT PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33749402135     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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