1977/03/01 by Darryl P. Greenwood · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Advanced optical system design #Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
paper · doi:10.1364/josa.67.000390
A simplified expression for the bandwidth of an adaptive optics system is found to depend on a weighted path integral of the turbulence strength, where the weighting is transverse wind velocity to the 5/3 power. The wave-front corrector is conservatively assumed to match the phase perfectly, at least spatially, if not temporally. For the case of astronomical imaging from a mountaintop observatory, the necessary bandwidth is found to be less than 200 Hz.