Performance of the Keck Observatory adaptive-optics system

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 5458-5467

  Van Dam, Marcos A ^a   Le Mignant, David ^b   Macintosh, Bruce A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRROR (DM); RESIDUAL CENTROIDS; TELESCOPE ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS (WFS);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 7544246300     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005458     Document Type: Article

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