Fitting error in deep turbulence for a flat subaperture segmented deformable mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7816, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sanchez, Darryl J ^a   Oesch, Denis W ^b   Kelly, Patrick R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; FITTING ERROR; INITIAL ESTIMATE; MEMS DM; SUBAPERTURE;

MIRRORS; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 77958009066     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.862568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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