Sensing the atmosphere on the upward path: LGSs without focal anisoplanatism for ELTs

Gordon D. Love; Richard M. Myers; Richard W. Wilson; David Felix Buscher; Tim Butterley; Timothy J. Morris

doi:10.1117/12.566317

7 July 2004 Sensing the atmosphere on the upward path: LGSs without focal anisoplanatism for ELTs

Gordon D. Love, Richard M. Myers, Richard W. Wilson, David Felix Buscher, Tim Butterley, Timothy J. Morris

Proceedings Volume 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566317
Event: Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003, Backaskog, Sweden

Abstract

We describe two new methods of using a laser guide star for wavefront sensing in order to reduce the errors associated with focal anisoplanatism.

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Gordon D. Love, Richard M. Myers, Richard W. Wilson, David Felix Buscher, Tim Butterley, and Timothy J. Morris "Sensing the atmosphere on the upward path: LGSs without focal anisoplanatism for ELTs", Proc. SPIE 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, (7 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566317

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