Design of the nasmyth adaptive optics system (NAOS) of the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3353, Issue , 1998, Pages 508-516

  Rousset, Gerard ^a   Lacombe, Francois ^b   Puget, Pascal ^c   Hubin, Norbert N ^d   Gendron, Eric ^b   Conan, Jean Marc ^a   Kern, Pierre Y ^c   Madec, Pierre Yves ^a   Rabaud, Didier ^a   Mouillet, David ^c   Lagrange, Anne Marie ^c   Rigaut, Francois J ^d  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Astronomy; Atmospheric turbulence; High resolution imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LIGHT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING CAMERAS; NEAR-IR; SPECTRAL BANDS; SPECTRAL RANGES; STREHL RATIOS; UNIT TELESCOPES; VERY LARGE TELESCOPES; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGES; WAVE-FRONT SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 61349130177     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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