Negating effects from Sodium profile variations for TMT: The MOR truth wavefront sensor of NFIRAOS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Andersen, David R ^a   Conan, Rodolphe ^b   Ellerbroek, Brent ^c   Herriota, Glen ^a   Vérana, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Adapive optics; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPIVE OPTICS; BAND PASS; DESIGN TRADES; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GALACTIC POLES; HIGH ORDER; LOW-BANDWIDTH; NEAR INFRARED; RADIAL MODE; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SAMPLING RATES; SHACK-HARTMANN; SKY COVERAGE; SODIUM LAYER; SUB-APERTURES; SUBAPERTURE; TIP-TILT; VISIBLE LIGHT; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVEFRONT ERRORS;

DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; LIGHT; SENSORS; SODIUM; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66949159802     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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