Laser-guide-star wavefront sensing for TMT: Experimental results of the matched filtering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lardiére, Olivier ^a   Conan, Rodolphe ^a   Bradley, Colin ^a   Herriot, Glen ^b   Jackson, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser guide star; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ATOM DENSITY; CENTRE OF GRAVITY; CENTROIDING; CLOSED-LOOP PERFORMANCE; LASER GUIDE STAR; MATCHED FILTERING; MATCHED FILTERS; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SIMULATOR TEST; SKY COVERAGE; SODIUM LAYER; SPOT IMAGE; WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; EQUIPMENT TESTING; LASER THEORY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SODIUM; TEST FACILITIES;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 66949119608     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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