Target-in-the-loop wavefront sensing and control with a Collett-wolf beacon: Speckle-average phase conjugation

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Kolosov, Valeriy V ^b,c   Polnau, Ernst ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECKLE; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; LASER BEAM PROJECTION; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; TARGET IN THE LOOPS; TURBULENCE EFFECT; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 60849124250     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000A13     Document Type: Article

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