Performance of the Keck Observatory adaptive-optics system

Marcos A van Dam1, David Le Mignant, Bruce A Macintosh

  • 1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550, USA. mvandam@keck.hawaii.edu

Applied Optics
|October 29, 2004
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