High-resolution lidar observations of mesospheric sodium and implications for adaptive optics

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Pfrommer, Thomas ^a   Hickson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ADVECTION; ERRORS; IONIZATION OF GASES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MINERALOGY; OPTICAL RADAR;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; APERTURE DIAMETER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DENSITY ENHANCEMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR; LARGE APERTURE; LASER GUIDE STAR; MESOSPHERE/LOWER THERMOSPHERES; MESOSPHERIC SODIUM; METEOR TRAILS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POWER LAW; RMS WAVEFRONT ERROR; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WIDE-FIELD ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

SODIUM;

EID: 78149300924     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000A97     Document Type: Article

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