Laboratory characterization and performance of the high-order adaptive optics system for the Large Binocular Telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages

  Esposito, Simone ^a   Riccardi, Armando ^a   Quirós Pacheco, Fernando ^a   Pinna, Enrico ^a   Puglisi, Alfio ^a   Xompero, Marco ^a   Briguglio, Runa ^a   Busoni, Lorenzo ^a   Fini, Luca ^a   Stefanini, Paolo ^a   Brusa, Guido ^b   Tozzi, Andrea ^a   Ranfagni, Piero ^a   Pieralli, Francesca ^a   Guerra, Juan C ^a   Arcidiacono, Carmelo ^a   Salinari, Piero ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; BINOCULARS; BINS; STARS; TELESCOPES; WIND;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE SECONDARY MIRRORS; GOAL SPECIFICATIONS; HIGH-ORDER ADAPTIVE OPTICS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE; NATURAL GUIDE STAR; PYRAMID WAVE-FRONT SENSORS; TELESCOPE PUPILS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 78149448536     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.00G174     Document Type: Article

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