title: Experimental observation of thermal-blooming phase-compensation instability.
abstract: We have made the first experimental observations to our knowledge of thermal-blooming phase-compensation instability. We identified the instability by impressing a spatial intensity modulation on the laser beam and watching this modulation grow as thermal-blooming compensation was performed with a 69-channel phaseconjugate adaptive-optics system.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Primmerman