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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7015, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a   Tighe, Roberto ^a   Cantarutti, Rolando ^a   Van Der Bliek, Nicole ^a   Martinez, Manuel ^a   Mondaca, Eduardo ^a   Montane, Andres ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Star

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE MODULES; BIMORPH DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; GROUND LAYER COMPENSATION; GROUND-LAYER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER LAUNCH TELESCOPES; LIGHT CONCENTRATION; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; REAL-TIME SOFTWARE; SHACK-HARTMANN; TIP-TILT; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ACCESS CONTROL; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LASERS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TELESCOPES; TURBULENCE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 66949180059     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788015     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. A. Tokovinin, B. Gregory, H. Schwarz, "Visible-light AO system for the 4.2-m SOAR telescope", Proc. SPIE, 4839, pp. 673-680, 2003.
2. A. Tokovinin, S. Thomas, B. Gregory, N. van der Bliek, P. Schurter, R. Cantarutti, E. Mondaca, "Design of ground-layer turbulence compensation with a Rayleigh beacon", Proc. SPIE, 5490, pp. 870-878, 2004 (Pubitemid 40027596)
3. A. Tokovinin, "Performance and error budget of a GLAO system", these Proceedings.
4. S. Thomas, T. Fusco, A. Tokovinin, M. Nicolle, V. Michau, G. Rousset, "Comparison of centroid computation algorithms in a Shack-Hartmann sensor", MNRAS, 371, pp. 323-336, 2006