Mitigation of spot elongation effects

Erez N. Ribak; Roberto Ragazzoni

doi:10.1117/12.566344

7 July 2004 Mitigation of spot elongation effects

Erez N. Ribak, Roberto Ragazzoni

Proceedings Volume 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566344
Event: Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, 2003, Backaskog, Sweden

Abstract

It is possible to reduce significantly spot elongation in adaptive optics systems, if the laser creating the artificial beacon is broken up into many weak independent lasers, sent from scattered locations up to the periphery of a large telescope.

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Erez N. Ribak and Roberto Ragazzoni "Mitigation of spot elongation effects", Proc. SPIE 5382, Second Backaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, (7 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566344

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