Update on the tmt adaptive optics real time controller

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boyer, C ^a   Gilles, L ^a   Ellerbroek, B ^a   Herriot, G ^b   Veran J P ^b  

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; NFIRAOS; Real time controller; Thirty meter telescope; Wavefront reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; LASER GUIDE STAR; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; NFIRAOS; REAL TIME CONTROLLER; REAL TIME CONTROLLERS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONTROLLERS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REAL TIME CONTROL; RESTORATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 66949128646     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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