The aggregate behavior of branch points - The use of branch point pairing to generate a hidden phase for closed-loop AO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7466, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tewksbury Christle, Carolyn M ^a   Oesch, Denis W ^a   Sanchez, Darryl J ^a   Kelly, Patrick R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Branch cut; Branch point; Hidden phase

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATION; BRANCH CUTS; BRANCH POINTS; CLOSED-LOOP; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROL LAWS; HIDDEN PHASE; OPEN LOOPS; PHASE CONTRIBUTION; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE;

ALGORITHMS; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICS;

EID: 79959327878     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.827778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. D. W. Oesch, D. J. Sanchez, C. M. Tewksbury-Christle, and P. R. Kelly, "The Aggregate Behavior of Branch Points - Branch Point Density as a Characteristic of an Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator," in 2009 SPIE Annual Conference, R. Carerras, T. Rhoadharmer, and D. Dayton, eds., SPIE, 2009. Accepted for publication.