Extreme adaptive optics for the thirty meter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Macintosh, Bruce ^a,b   Troy, Mitchell ^a,c   Doyon, Rene ^d   Graham, James ^a,e   Baker, Kevin ^a,b   Bauman, Brian ^a,b   Marois, Christian ^a,b   Palmer, David ^a,b   Phillion, Donald ^a,b   Poyneer, Lisa ^a,b   Crossfield, Ian ^a,c   Dumont, Philip ^a,c   Levine, B Marty ^a,c   Shao, Michael ^a,c   Serabyn, Gene ^a,c   Shelton, Chris ^a,c   Vasisht, Gautum ^a,c   Wallace, James K ^a,c   Lavigne, Jean Francois ^d   Valee, Philippe ^d   Rowlands, Neil ^f   Tam, Ken ^f   Hackett, Daniel ^f   more..

^a NSF Center for Adaptive Optics   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f COM DEV ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Coronagraphs; Extrasolar planets; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

CORONAGRAPHS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749416782     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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