Status of the PALM-3000 high-order adaptive optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7439, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bouchez, Antonin H ^a   Dekany, Richard G ^a   Angione, John R ^b   Baranec, Christoph ^a   Bui, Khanh ^a   Burruss, Rick S ^b   Crepp, Justin R ^a   Croner, Ernest E ^a   Cromer, John L ^a   Guiwits, Stephen R ^b   Hale, David D S ^a   Henning, John R ^c   Palmer, Dean ^b   Roberts, Jennifer E ^b   Troy, Mitchell ^b   Truong, Tuan N ^b   Zolkower, Jeffry ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable mirrors; Extreme adaptive optics; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; CURRENT STATUS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DETAILED DESIGN; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-ORDER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; TELESCOPE PUPILS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVE FRONT CONTROL; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ACTUATORS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DEFORMATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SENSORS; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 70449562303     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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