Modal wavefront control system (MOWACS)
Abstract
MOWACS (Modal Wavefront Control System) is a form of Coherent Optical Adaptive Techniques (COAT) used to obtain information required to correct turbulence and thermal blooming aberrations characteristic of high energy lasers in the atmosphere. The feasibility of replacing complex multi-segment mirror COAT systems with continuously deformable mirrors was established in Phase I. In Phase II the system was upgraded to include a 100 Hz bandwidth closed loop system and to allow the introduction of more sophisticated aberrations.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976pec..rept.....N
- Keywords:
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- Feedback Control;
- Modal Response;
- Wave Fronts;
- Bandwidth;
- Coherent Radar;
- Mirrors;
- Thermal Blooming;
- Lasers and Masers