Study of a mems-based shack-hartmann wavefront sensor with adjustable pupil sampling for astronomical adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 5155-5162

  Baranec, Christoph ^a   Dekany, Richard ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ASTRONOMICAL ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; SEGMENTED MIRROR; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SPATIAL SAMPLING; WAVE FRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 60749094271     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005155     Document Type: Article

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