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Evaluation of a Wavefront Sensing Concept for a Full Solar Disk Adaptive Optics System

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Solar scintillations were investigated as a method of detecting seeing-dependent wavefront curvature variations for solar adaptive optics. The method is applicable to full-disk averaged, adaptive corrections of large-scale near-field seeing distortions. As a test case, seeing measurements were carried out on a single small adaptive mirror, representing one element of what would be a large multielement adaptive array. All observations showed a greater than 5× reduction of seeing distortions as a result of this wavefront correction.

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    E. J. Seykora

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Seykora, E.J. Evaluation of a Wavefront Sensing Concept for a Full Solar Disk Adaptive Optics System. Solar Physics 176, 37–44 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004976004415

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