Low-light-level charge-coupled devices for pyramid wavefront sensing on 8 m class telescopes: What actual gain?

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages

  Carbillet, Marcel ^a   Riccardi, Armando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; LIGHT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CURRENT COMPONENT; FRIED PARAMETERS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; LOW LIGHT LEVEL; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 78149433339     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.00G167     Document Type: Article

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