Primary adaptive mirrors for ELTs: A report on preliminary studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 533-543

  Riccardi, A ^a   Del Vecchio, C ^a   Salinari, P ^a   Brusa, G ^a,b   Lardiere, O ^a   Gallieni, D ^c   Biasi, R ^d   Mantegazza, P ^e  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ADS International srl   (Italy)

^d Microgate srl   (Italy)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Adaptive primary mirrors; Extremely large telescopes; Giant telescopes; Wave front correctors

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE PRIMARY MIRRORS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GIANT TELESCOPES; WAVE FRONT CORRECTORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 5444222690     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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