Performance and error budget of a GLAO system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; ERROR BUDGETS; INSTRUMENTAL ERROR; PERFORMANCE METRICS; TURBULENCE PROFILE; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; BUDGET CONTROL; IMAGE QUALITY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 60749107667     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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