Early light TMT instrumentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Crampton, David ^a,b   Simard, Luc ^a,b   Silva, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b TMT Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

ELT; Instrumentation adaptive optics; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY MISSIONS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; ELT; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; INSTRUMENTATION ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; LASER GUIDE STAR; MULTIOBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NIR IMAGING; SEEING LIMITED; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; WAVELENGTH REGIONS; WIDE FIELD;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DIFFRACTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

LIGHT;

EID: 56249086278     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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