Wide field astronomical image compensation with multiple laser-guided adaptive optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7468, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hart, Michael ^a   Milton, N Mark ^a   Baranec, Christoph ^b   Stalcup, Thomas ^a   Powell, Keith ^a   Bendek, Eduardo ^a   McCarthy, Don ^a   Kulesa, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Laser guide stars; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ARIZONA; ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES; BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; CLOSED-LOOP; DEFORMABLE SECONDARY MIRROR; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DYNAMIC REFOCUS; ELECTRONIC SHUTTERING; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULL-FIELD; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; LASER GUIDE STARS; MMT TELESCOPES; MULTIPLE LASERS; NEAR INFRARED BAND; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RANGE GATES; SHACK-HARTMANN SENSOR; TELESCOPE OPTICS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; WIDE-FIELD;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; SENSORS; STARS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77955699064     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.827301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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