Evaluating sky coverage for the NFIRAOS tip/tilt control architecture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Lianqi ^a   Ellerbroek, Brent ^a   V́eran, Jean Pierre ^b   Sinquin, Jean Christophe ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c CILAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; COMPONENT PERFORMANCE; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL REQUIREMENTS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; GALACTIC POLES; GUIDE STAR; HIGH AMPLITUDES; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INPUT DISTURBANCE; LASER GUIDE STAR; LOW-AMPLITUDE; LOW-BANDWIDTH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-CONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; NEAR-IR; PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT; SKY COVERAGE; TIP/TILT PLATFORM; TYPE II; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; JITTER; LOUDSPEAKERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

LIGHT;

EID: 66949171743     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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