Design and Construction of a Multiple Beam Laser Projector and Dynamically Refocused Wavefront Sensor

Adaptive optics using natural guide stars can produce images of amazing quality, but is limited to a small fraction of the sky due to the need for a relatively bright guidestar. Adaptive optics systems using a laser generated artifical reference can be used over a majority of the sky, but these sys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stalcup, Thomas Eugene
Other Authors: Angel, J. Roger P.
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2006
Subjects:
AO
LGS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194836