November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 30m
English
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Index
- 4f optical system 36
- aberration 31
- absorption 28
- Ackermann’s formula 111
- acquisition tracker 302
- acquisition, tracking, and pointing (ATP) 301
- active optics beam jitter control 191
- experimental results 193
- active vibration actuators 184
- active vibration and jitter control 184
- active vibration Isolation 199
- adaptive optics (AO) 203
- air turbulence 151–170
- airborne laser (ABL) system 315
- airy disk 28, 170
- amplitude spread function 39
- anisoplanatic angle 219
- aperture 27, 33
- aperture stop 30, 34
- artificial guide star 220
- atmospheric absorption 29, Fig. 2.19
- atmospheric coherence length 165
- atmospheric turbulence 151
- Basic equations for feedback block diagram, basic unity feedback with sensor noise 52, Fig. 3.12
- beaconless adaptive optics 225
- beam director 292, Fig. 8.14
- beam expander 283
- Beam spread 168, Fig. 4.14
- beam waist 281
- beam walk mirror 293
- birefringence 27
- Block diagram, full-order observer ...
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