Atmospheric turbulence profiling with SLODAR using multiple adaptive optics wavefront sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1880-1892

  Wang, Lianqi ^a   Schöck, Matthias ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; REDUCTION METHOD; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; TIME-AVERAGED; TURBULENT LAYER; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WIND PROFILING; WIND VELOCITIES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 61849172806     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001880     Document Type: Article

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