Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1989 · 80 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyAtmospheric ScienceOpticsVisual OpticsAdaptive OpticsAtmospheric CorrectionAtmospheric OpticsAtmospheric SeeingOptical AberrationsOptical TomographyAdaptive Optics System DesignAtmospheric Seeing CorrectionMulti-conjugate Adaptive OpticsTomographyWavefront Distortion
By the simultaneous observation of the atmospheric wavefront of a number of adjacent objects in the sky it appears possible to determine the atmospheric wavefront distortion in 3 dimensions using tomography techniques. Once obtained it becomes then possible to correct the atmospheric wavefront distortions in detail using adaptive optics at the conjugates of a number of atmospheric layers.