The Effects of Piston and Tilt Errors on the Performance of Multiple Mirror Telescopes.
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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- ADA338986
Entities
People
- R. R. Butts
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory