Recent advances in astronomical adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Hart, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DYNAMIC WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 77955995061     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000D17     Document Type: Article

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