Performance analysis of polychromatic laser guide stars used for wavefront tilt sensing

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 337, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 910-920

  Schock M ^a   Foy, R ^b   Tallon, M ^b   Noethe, L ^c   Pique, J P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE LYON   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Instrumentation: high angular resolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; DESIGN STUDIES; DISTORTED WAVEFRONT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INSTRUMENTATION: ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION:HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; LASER GUIDE STAR; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONT TILT;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 4243364458     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05967.x     Document Type: Article

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