Effects Of Piston And Tilt Errors On The Performance Of Multiple Mirror Telescopes

R. R. Butts

doi:10.1117/12.932330

30 December 1981 Effects Of Piston And Tilt Errors On The Performance Of Multiple Mirror Telescopes

R. R. Butts

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Proceedings Volume 0293, Wavefront Distortions in Power Optics; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932330
Event: 25th Annual Technical Symposium, 1981, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The degradation due to random segment jitter and phase mismatch on the average far field, on axis irradiance of a laser beam transmitted from a telescope with a segmented primary mirror is computed. The derived expression is exact within the stated assumptions and offers a more accurate alternative, for this application, to the commonly used Strehl approximation.

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R. R. Butts "Effects Of Piston And Tilt Errors On The Performance Of Multiple Mirror Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 0293, Wavefront Distortions in Power Optics, (30 December 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932330

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