First light AO (FLAO) system for LBT: Performance analysis and optimization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Quirós Pacheco, Fernando ^a   Busoni, Lorenzo ^a   Agapito, Guido ^a   Esposito, Simone ^a   Pinna, Enrico ^a   Puglisi, Alfio ^a   Riccardi, Armando ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive secondary mirror; High order adaptive optics; Large binocular telescope; Pyramid sensor

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRRORS; END-TO-END SIMULATION; ERROR SOURCES; HIGH-ORDER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; OPTIMAL SETS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PYRAMID SENSOR; PYRAMID WAVE-FRONT SENSORS; REFERENCE STAR; REGISTRATION ERROR; SUB-APERTURES; TELESCOPE PUPILS;

BINOCULARS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 77957830399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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