Correction of ocular and atmospheric wavefronts: A comparison of the performance of various deformable mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 6550-6562

  Devaney, Nicholas ^a   Dalimier, Eugenie ^a   Farrell, Thomas ^a   Coburn, Derek ^a   Mackey, Ruth ^a   Mackey, David ^a   Laurent, Francois ^a   Daly, Elizabeth ^a   Dainty, Chris ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; ALDEHYDES; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DEFORMATION; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; VISION AIDS; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS; NUMBER OF ACTUATORS; OCULAR ABERRATIONS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTOR;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 60949094788     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006550     Document Type: Article

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