Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing with elongated sodium laser beacons: Centroiding versus matched filtering

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6568-6576

  Ellerbroek, Luc Gillesbrent ^a  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTODETECTORS;

POSITION ESTIMATION; WAVEFRONT ERRORS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 33750289448     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006568     Document Type: Article

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