Laser guide star Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor modeling: Matched filtering, wavefront sensor nonlinearity, and impact of sodium layer variability for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gilles, Luc ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent ^a  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; Nonlinearity; Sodium laser guide star elongation; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; SODIUM LASER GUIDE STAR ELONGATION; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; POSITION MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONTS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33749414071     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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