The hybrid Shack-Hartmann/G-SCIDAR instrument

Rodriguez Hernández, M. A. C.; Jiménez-Fuensalida, Jesús; García-Lorenzo, Begoña M.; Delgado, José M.; Hernandez, Elvio; Hoegemann, C.; Vázquez Ramió, Héctor
Bibliographical reference

Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems X. Edited by Stein, Karin; Kohnle, Anton; Gonglewski, John D.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6747, pp. 67470W (2007).

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2007
Number of authors
7
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7
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Description
We have built a hybrid turbulence profiler measuring simultaneously the atmospheric turbulence structure with a Shack- Hartmann wave front sensor and a G-SCIDAR (scintillation sensor). This is the first instrument combining two different techniques to measure simultaneously the turbulence structure. The hybrid profiler has been installed at the Carlos Sánchez Telescope (TCS) at the Teide Observatory (OT), in Tenerife Spain. The G-SCIDAR arm is already working properly and we are still testing the Shack-Hartmann arm.