First light for Hokupa'a: 36 Element curvature AO system at UH

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 34-43

  Graves, J Elon ^a   Northcott, Malcolm J ^a   Roddier, Francois J ^a   Roddier, Claude A ^a   Close, Laird M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; AO optical system design; AO telescope performance; Curvature deformable mirrors; Curvature wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DEFORMATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

AO OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN; AO TELESCOPE PERFORMANCE; CURVATURE DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; CURVATURE WAVEFRONT SENSING; DIFFRACTION LIMITEDS; UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4043178222     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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