Laser guide stars for extremely large telescopes: Efficient Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor design using the weighted centre-of-gravity algorithm

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 396, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1513-1521

  Schreiber, L ^a   Foppiani, I ^a   Robert, C ^b   Diolaiti, E ^c   Conan, J M ^b   Lombini, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Instrumentation: adaptive optics; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SODIUM; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; CENTROIDING; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; INSTRUMENTATION: ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LASER GUIDE STAR; PERFORMANCE; SENSOR DESIGNS; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SODIUM LAYER; WEIGHTED CENTER OF GRAVITIES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 67549105156     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14797.x     Document Type: Article

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