Demonstration of on sky contrast improvement using the Modified Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm at the Palomar Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Burruss, Rick S ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^a   Mawet, Dimitri P ^a   Roberts, Jennifer E ^a   Hickey, Jeffrey P ^b   Rykoski, Kevin ^b   Bikkannavar, Siddarayappa ^a   Crepp, Justin R ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; High contrast coronagraphy; HR8799; Mgs; Phase retrieval; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

HIGH CONTRAST; HR8799; MGS; PHASE RETRIEVAL; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 77957830872     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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