Atmospheric refractivity effects on mid-infrared ELT adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kendrew, Sarah ^a   Jolissaint, Laurent ^a   Mathar, Richard J ^a   Stuika, Remko ^a   Hippler, Stefan ^b   Brandl, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Atmospheric dispersion; Atmospheric turbulence; European extremely large telescope; Infrared instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; EUROPEAN EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FIRST-ORDER; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; INFRARED INSTRUMENTATION; MIDINFRARED; PRESENCE OF WATER; RADIO WAVELENGTHS; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFRACTION; SENSORS; WATER VAPOR; WAVEFRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 66949167356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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