Software control of the 3 active surfaces of the Thirty-meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6274, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Daly, P N ^a   Marshall, R E ^a   Sirota, M J ^b   Jared, R C ^c  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b TMT Project Office   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AO; Control Systems; Software; TMT; WFS

Indexed keywords

AO; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE (TMT); WFS;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749635806     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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