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Aspects of the Theoretical Performance of Modal Adaptive Optics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

R.W. Wilson  and
C.R. Jenkins
R.W. Wilson
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road, Cambridge, England, CB3 0EZ
C.R. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road, Cambridge, England, CB3 0EZ

Abstract

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This paper describes early results of a theoretical investigation of the performance of an adaptive optics system in which a limited number of Karhunen-Loeve modes of the wavefront distortion are corrected. We have determined the on-axis point spread function for an idealised adaptive optics system in Kolmogorov seeing, whose performance is defined in terms of radii of included energy and Strehl ratios for a range of examples. We discuss extensions of the analysis for the off-axis point spread function, and for non-Kolmogorov seeing.

Type
Adaptive Optics and Seeing
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 158: Very High Angular Resolution Imaging , 1994 , pp. 305 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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