Optimization of adaptive-optics systems closedloop bandwidth settings to maximize imaging-system performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 848-855

  Brigantic, Robert T ^a   Roggemann, Michael C ^b   Welsh, Byron M ^c   Bauer, Kenneth W ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^c Mission Research Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 4043155357     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000848     Document Type: Article

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