Current status of the laser guide star adaptive optic system for Subaru Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Takami, Hideki ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^a   Oya, Shin ^a   Hattori, Masayuki ^a   Saito, Yoshihiko ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Murakami, Naoshi ^a   Minowa, Yosuke ^a   Ito, Meguru ^a   Colley, Stephen ^a   Eldred, Michael ^a   Golota, Taras ^a   Dinkins, Matthew ^a   Kashikawa, Nobunari ^a   Lye, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Bimorph mirror; Curvature sensor; Laser guide star; Subaru Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; BIMORPH MIRROR; CURRENT STATUS; CURVATURE SENSOR; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; GUIDE STAR; K BANDS; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER GUIDE STAR ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASER LAUNCHING TELESCOPE; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; ORLANDO; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; STREHL RATIO; SUBARU TELESCOPE; SUBARU TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; LAUNCHING; LIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; SODIUM;

MIRRORS;

EID: 66949145445     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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