The gemini MCAO system GeMS: Nearing the end of a lab-story

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Neichel, B ^a   Rigaut, F ^a   Bec, M ^a   Boceas, M ^a   Daruich, F ^a   D'Orgeville, C ^a   Fesquet, V ^a   Galvez, R ^a   Garcia Rissmann, A ^a   Gausachs, G ^a   Lombini, M ^b   Perez, G ^a   Trancho, G ^a   Upadhya, V ^a   Vucina, T ^a  

^a GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Characterization; Diagnostics; Integration and test; Multi conjugated adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION; CONTROL COMPLEXITY; CURRENT STATUS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIAGNOSTICS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; LARGE PARTS; LASER GUIDE STAR; MULTI-CONJUGATED ADAPTIVE OPTICS; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; SUB-SYSTEMS; TIP-TILT MIRROR;

CALIBRATION; GEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED DEVICES; MIRRORS; STARS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 77957843952     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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