Laboratory testing the layer oriented wavefront sensor for the multiconjugate adaptive optics demonstrator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^a   Lombini, Matteo ^a,b   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^b   Farinato, Jacopo ^b   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Layer oriented MCAO; MAD; Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics systems; Wavefront Sensors

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

LAYER ORIENTED MCAO; MAD; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33749407431     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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