The PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system for palomar observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bouchez, Antonin H ^a   Dekany, Richard G ^a   Angione, John R ^b   Baranec, Christoph ^a   Britton, Matthew C ^a   Bui, Khanh ^a   Burruss, Rick S ^b   Cromer, John L ^a   Guiwits, Stephen R ^b   Henning, John R ^c   Hickey, Jeff ^c   McKenna, Daniel L ^c   Moore, Anna M ^a   Roberts, Jennifer E ^b   Trinh, Thang Q ^b   Troy, Mitchell ^b   Truong, Tuan N ^b   Velur, Viswa ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Extreme Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Stars

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; EXTREME AO; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-ORDER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROGRAPH; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER GUIDE STARS; MULTI-USER; NEAR INFRARED; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVE-FRONT SENSING; WAVEFRONT PROCESSORS;

ACTUATORS; BUILDINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; LIGHT; OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; SODIUM; SPECTROGRAPHS; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 66949118226     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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