First light adaptive optics systems and components for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Ellerbroek, Brent ^a   Adkins, Sean ^b   Andersen, David ^c   Atwood, Jenny ^c   Browne, Steve ^b   Boyer, Corinne ^a   Byrnes, Peter ^c   Caputa, Kris ^c   Conan, Rodolphe ^e   Cousty, Raphael ^f   Erikson, Daren ^c   Fitzsimmons, Joeleff ^c   Gamache, Frederick ^g   Gilles, Luc ^a   Herriot, Glen ^c   Hickson, Paul ^h   Lardier, Olivier ^e   Morin, Pierre ^f   Pazder, John ^c   Pfrommer, Thomas ^h   Quinn, David ^g   Reshetov, Vladimir ^c   Roberts, Scott ^c   Sinquin, Jean Christophe ^f   Schoeck, Matthias ^c   Smith, Malcolm ^c   Tyler, Glenn ^d   Vaughn, Jeff ^d   Veran, JeanPierre ^c   Vogel, Curt ⁱ   Wang, Lianqi ^a   Wevers, Ivan ^c   more..

^a TMT Observatory Corp   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f CILAS   (France)

^g Lyrtech Inc   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁱ MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Extremely large telescopes

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DETAILED DESIGN; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FIRST-LIGHT ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEM; GALACTIC POLES; GUIDE STAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR; LASER GUIDE STAR; LASER POWER; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM LAYER; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; NEAR-IR; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; REAL TIME CONTROLLERS; SKY COVERAGE; SYSTEM MODELING; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE; WAVE FRONT SENSORS; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SENSORS; SODIUM; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77957829690     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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