Interferometric connection of large telescopes at Mauna Kea

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3350, Issue , 1998, Pages 785-792

  Mariotti, Jean Marie ^a,b   Coudé Du Foresto, Vincent ^a   Perrin, Guy S ^a   Léna, Pierre J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Interferometry; Single mode optical fibers; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LARGE TELESCOPES; SINGLE MODE OPTICAL FIBERS; SINGLE MODES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 58749085732     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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