Improved performance of the laser guide star adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory / Scot S. Olivier ; Donald T. Gavel ; Herbert W. Friedman ; Claire E. Max ; Jong R. An ; Kenneth Avicola ; Brian J. Bauman ; James M. Brase ; Eugene W. Campbell ; Carmen J. Carrano ; Jeffrey B. Cooke ; Gary J. Freeze ; Elinor L. Gates ; Vernon K. Kanz ; Thomas C. Kuklo ; Bruce A. Macintosh ; Michael J. Newman ; Edward L. Pierce ; Kenneth E. Waltjen ; James A. Watson |
LGS Na spot elongation and Rayleigh scattering effects on Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor performances / Elise Viard ; Francoise Delplancke ; Norbert N. Hubin ; Nancy Ageorges |
Lick sodium laser guide star: performance during the 1998 LGS observing campaign |
Full-system laboratory testing of the F/15 deformable secondary mirror for the new MMT adaptive optics system / Patrick C. McGuire ; Michael Lloyd-Hart ; J. Roger P. Angel ; George Z. Angeli ; Robert L. Johnson ; Bruce C. Fitz-Patrick ; Warren B. Davison ; Roland J. Sarlot ; Cynthia J. Bresloff ; John M. Hughes ; Stephen M. Miller ; Skip Schaller ; Francois P. Wildi ; Matthew A. Kenworthy ; Richard M. Cordova ; Matthew J. Rademacher ; Mario H. Rascon ; James H. Burge ; Brian L. Stamper ; Chunyu Zhao ; Piero Salinari ; Ciro del Vecchio ; Armando Riccardi ; Guido Brusa ; Roberto Biasi ; Mario Andrighettoni ; Daniele Gallieni ; Claudio Franchini ; David G. Sandler ; Todd K. Barrett |
Adaptive secondary mirror for the 6.5-m conversion of the Multiple Mirror Telescope: first laboratory testing results / Valdemaro Biliotti ; Paolo Stefanini ; Paolo Mantegazza |
High-order adaptive optics system with a high-density spherical membrane deformable mirror / Maud P. Langlois |
Membrane deformable mirrors under cw laser load / Gleb V. Vdovin ; Nicolas Kugler ; Martin Schacht |
Spatial bandwidth of influence functions in adaptive optical systems / Mark E. Furber ; David C. Jordan |
Real-time adaptive optimization of track loop controllers in adaptive optics systems as a function of input statistics and sensor gain / Jeffrey D. Barchers ; James M. Brown |
Performance assessment of MEMS adaptive optics in tactical airborne systems / Robert K. Tyson |
Extended-image spatial tracking technique for deep-space optical downlinks / Haiping Tsou ; Caroline S. Racho ; Tsun-Yee Yan |
Online subaperture selection in AO closed-loop systems / Carlo Morossi ; Mariagrazia Franchini ; Sergio Furlani |
Zernike modal compensation analysis for an adaptive optics system using direct-gradient wavefront reconstruction algorithm / Xinyang Li ; Chunhong Wang ; Hao Xian ; Xubin Wu ; Wenhan Jiang |
Power series evaluation of Zernike covariances for turbulence-induced phase distortions including outer scale and servo lag effects / Brent L. Ellerbroek |
21-element infrared adaptive optics system at 2.16-m telescope / Guomao Tang ; Mingquan Li ; Ning Ling ; Changhui Rao ; Chunlin Guan ; Lingtao Jiang ; Feng Shen ; Mei Li ; Yanying Li ; Donghong Chen ; Jingyao Hu ; Gang Wang ; Jinghao Sun |
Gemini Mauna Kea laser guide star system / Celine D'Orgeville ; Mark R. Chun ; Jacques Sebag ; Corinne Boyer ; David Montgomery ; Jacobus M. Oschmann ; Francois J. Rigaut ; Douglas A. Simons |
Laboratory adaptive optics system for testing the wavefront sensor for the new MMT / Troy A. Rhoadarmer |
Adaptive optics high-resolution spectroscopy: present status and future direction / Jian Ge ; Dino R. Ciarlo ; Paul J. Kuzmenko ; Charles R. Alcock ; Neville J. Woolf ; Robert Q. Fugate ; Joan Najita |
Calar Alto ALFA and the sodium laser guide star in astronomy / David J. Butler ; Richard I. Davies ; H. Fews ; Wolfgang K. Hackenberg ; Sebastian Rabien ; Thomas Ott ; Andreas Eckart ; Markus Kasper |
New optical design of adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory / Kristian A. Keahi ; Shordon K. Lopes |
Object-independent point spread function and wavefront phase estimation / Julian C. Christou ; Stuart M. Jefferies ; E. Keith Hege |
Analysis of atmospheric turbulence measurements obtained with the Starfire Optical Range 3.5-m telescope adaptive optical system / David J. Lee |
Analysis of turbulent atmospheric layers with a wavefront sensor: testing the frozen flow hypothesis / Matthias Schoeck ; Earl J. Spillar |
High-accuracy calibration of an adaptive optics system using a phase-shifting diffraction interferometer / Daren R. Dillon |
Miniature instrument for the measurement of gap thickness using polychromatic interferometry |
Optimal design of wavefront sensors for adaptive optical systems: effects of grating period and subaperture size in a shearing interferometer |
Practical comparison of phase diversity to interferometry in measuring the aberrations in an adaptive optics system |
Construction and testing of the wavefront sensor camera for the new MMT adaptive optics system / J. Christopher Shelton ; Michael P. Lesser ; Jeff G. Capara ; David B. Ouellette |
Focal plane masks in adaptive optics systems / Anthony J. Seward ; Francois Lacombe ; Michael K. Giles |
Test of beam cleanup for the annular beam using the 61-element AO system / Bing Xu ; Qiang Zhang ; Tao Jin |
Compensation effectiveness analysis of low-order-correction adaptive optical system for non-Kolmogorov turbulence |
Single-input/single-output analysis of latency and quadrant detector saturation in adaptive optical systems / David E. Lane |
PASS-2: photometry of the polychromatic laser guide star / Renaud Foy ; Jean Paul Pique ; Michel Tallon ; Patricia Segonds ; Markus Laubscher ; Olivier Peillet |
Static and dynamic responses of an ultrathin adaptive secondary mirror |
Optimum matching of wavefront sensor and wavefront corrector for annular laser beam |
Influence of volcanic aerosols on guide star systems / David A. Nahrstedt |
Chromatic spatial superresolution with infrared adaptive optics / Andrew Zadrozny |
Beam quality and polarization analysis of the ALFA laser at Calar Alto and the influence on brightness and size of the laser guide star |
LA3OS2: a software package for laser guide star adaptive optics systems / Marcel Carbillet ; Bruno Femenia ; Simone Esposito ; Luca Fini |
Experimental validation of tilt measurement technique with a laser beacon / Mikhail S. Belen Kii ; Stephen J. Karis |
Preliminary experimental evidence of anisotropy of turbulence and the effect of non-Kolmogorov turbulence on wavefront tilt statistics / Christina L. Osmon ; Robert Q. Fugate|p396 |
Improved performance of the laser guide star adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory / Scot S. Olivier ; Donald T. Gavel ; Herbert W. Friedman ; Claire E. Max ; Jong R. An ; Kenneth Avicola ; Brian J. Bauman ; James M. Brase ; Eugene W. Campbell ; Carmen J. Carrano ; Jeffrey B. Cooke ; Gary J. Freeze ; Elinor L. Gates ; Vernon K. Kanz ; Thomas C. Kuklo ; Bruce A. Macintosh ; Michael J. Newman ; Edward L. Pierce ; Kenneth E. Waltjen ; James A. Watson |
LGS Na spot elongation and Rayleigh scattering effects on Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor performances / Elise Viard ; Francoise Delplancke ; Norbert N. Hubin ; Nancy Ageorges |
Lick sodium laser guide star: performance during the 1998 LGS observing campaign |