Villages: An on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6888, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gavel, Donald ^a   Severson, Scott ^b   Bauman, Brian ^c   Dillon, Daren ^a   Reinig, Marc ^a   Lockwood, Chris ^a   Palmer, Dave ^c   Morzinski, Katie ^a   Ammons, Mark ^a   Gates, Elinor ^a   Grigsby, Bryant ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical adaptive optics; Atmospheric wavefront control; Deformable mirrors

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVEFRONT CONTROL; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

MEMS;

EID: 41149153817     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.772406     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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