Hot-air optical turbulence generator for the testing of adaptive optics systems: Principles and characterization

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4888-4897

  Keskin, Onur ^a   Jolissaint, Laurent ^b,c   Bradley, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Schweizerische Nationalfonds SNF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

KOLMOGOROV'S THEORY; SLOPE DETECTION; TURBULATORS; TURBULENCE STRENGTH;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33749819748     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004888     Document Type: Article

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