Layer-oriented simulation tool

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4288-4302

  Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^a   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^b   Tordi, Massimiliano ^b   Ragazzoni, Roberto ^c   Farinato, Jacopo ^c   Vernet, Elise ^c   Marchetti, Enrico ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE INTERFEROMETERS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS MODULES; BINOCULAR TELESCOPES; WAVE-FRONT SENSORS (WFE);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 4043078005     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004288     Document Type: Article

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