Tomographic reconstruction of stellar wavefronts from multiple laser guide stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Baranec, Christoph ^a   Lloyd Hart, Michael ^a   Milton, N Mark ^a   Stalcup, Thomas ^a   Snyder, Miguel ^a   Angel, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide stars; Multi conjugate adaptive optics; Tomography; Wavefront sensors

Indexed keywords

LASER GUIDE STARS; MULTI CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; SHACK HARTMANN SENSOR; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33749403236     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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