Progress towards developing the TMT adaptive optical systems and their components

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ellerbroek, Brent ^a   Adkins, Sean ^b   Andersen, David ^c   Atwood, Jenny ^c   Boyer, Corinne ^a   Byrnes, Peter ^c   Conan, Rodolphe ^d   Gilles, Luc ^a   Herriot, Glen ^c   Hickson, Paul ^e   Hileman, Ed ^f   Joyce, Dick ^f   Leckie, Brian ^c   Liang, Ming ^f   Pfrommer, Thomas ^e   Sinquin, Jean Christophe ^g   Veran, Jean Pierre ^c   Wang, Lianqi ^a   Welle, Paul ^c  

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g CILAS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE COMPENSATION; BEAM TRANSPORT; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GALACTIC POLES; HIGH-ORDER; LASER GUIDE STAR; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; NEAR-IR; OPTO-MECHANICAL DESIGN; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PROTOTYPING; SECONDARY MIRROR; SKY COVERAGE; SUM-FREQUENCY LASER; SYSTEM MODELING; TIME VARYING; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LIGHT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; SODIUM; SOLID STATE LASERS; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 66949170269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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