Split atmospheric tomography using laser and natural guide stars

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2427-2435

  Gilles, Luc ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent L ^a  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Observatory Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

ANISOPLANATISM; ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHIES; CLOSED LOOPS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; CONJUGATE GRADIENTS; CONTROL ARCHITECTURES; CONTROL LOOPS; FLEXIBLE CONTROLS; FOURIER DOMAINS; GAUSS SEIDELS; HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH ORDERS; INTEGRATED CONTROL ARCHITECTURES; ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; LASER GUIDE STARS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NATURAL GUIDE STARS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENTS; RMS WAVEFRONT ERRORS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SPLIT CONTROLS; THIRTY-METER TELESCOPES; TOMOGRAPHIC; WAVE OPTICS; WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTION; WAVE-FRONT SENSORS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 60049096480     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002427     Document Type: Article

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