Correction of horizontal turbulence with nematic liquid crystal wavefront corrector

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7006-7013

  Cao, Zhaoliang ^a,b   Mu, Quanquan ^a,b   Hu, Lifa ^a   Li, Dayu ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Jin, Lu ^c   Xuan, Li ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

CLOSED-LOOP CORRECTION; CLOSED-LOOP FREQUENCY; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS (GPU); ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE (RMS);

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

AIR; ATMOSPHERE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43849103306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007006     Document Type: Article

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