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Adaptive Optics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

N.J. Woolf
N.J. Woolf*
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

Abstract

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Adaptive optics is a technique for correcting atmospheric wavefront disturbances to yield diffraction limited imaging. It is a technique whose advantages are most apparent in the 2-5µ spectral region, where wavefront corrections are derived from study of visible objects. Graphs are presented to show performance needs of adaptive optics systems.

Type
III. Atmospheric Seeing, Interferometry, Speckle, MMTs and Arrays
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 221 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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