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Adaptive Optics for Astronomy [PDF]
Adaptive optics is a prime example of how progress in observational astronomy can be driven by technological developments. At many observatories it is now considered to be part of a standard instrumentation suite, enabling ground-based telescopes to reach the diffraction limit and, thus, providing spatial resolution superior to that achievable from ...
Markus Kasper, R. I. Davies
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Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes [PDF]
Adaptive Optics (AO) has become a key technology for the largest ground-based telescopes currently under, or close to beginning of, construction. AO is an indispensable component and has basically only one task, that is to operate the telescope at its ...
S. Hippler
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Adaptive optics at the WHT [PDF]
The WHT is unusually well-placed for exploitation of adaptive-optics (AO) technology. The site seeing is excellent (median 0.7 arcsec), dome seeing is negligible, and preliminary studies indicate that most of the atmospheric seeing originates in a well-defined layer at low altitude, which bodes well for future laser-guide-star AO. The Durham group have
Benn, C. R.
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Multiconjugate Adaptive Optics for Astronomy [PDF]
Since the year 2000, adaptive optics (AO) has seen the emergence of a variety of new concepts addressing particular science needs; multiconjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) is one of them.
F. Rigaut, B. Neichel
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Adaptive optics in laser processing [PDF]
Adaptive optics are becoming a valuable tool for laser processing, providing enhanced functionality and flexibility for a range of systems. Using a single adaptive element, it is possible to correct for aberrations introduced when focusing inside the ...
P. Salter, M. Booth
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Adaptive optics program at TMT [PDF]
The TMT first light Adaptive Optics (AO) facility consists of the Narrow Field Infra-Red AO System (NFIRAOS), the associated Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) and the AO Executive Software (AOESW).
C. Boyer
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AbstractAdaptive optics normally concerns the feedback correction of phase aberrations. Such correction has been of benefit in various optical systems, with applications ranging in scale from astronomical telescopes to super-resolution microscopes. Here we extend this powerful tool into the vectorial domain, encompassing higher-dimensional feedback ...
Chao He+2 more
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Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy [PDF]
ABSTRACT Retinal images in the human eye are normally degraded because we are forced to use the optical system of the human eye- which is fraught with aberrations - as the objective lens. The recent application of adaptive optics technology to measure and compensate for these aberrations has produced retinal images in human eyes with ...
Austin Roorda
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Adaptive optics (AO) has become an indispensable tool at ground-based solar telescopes. AO enables the ground-based observer to overcome the adverse effects of atmospheric seeing and obtain diffraction limited observations. Over the last decade adaptive optics systems have been deployed at major ground-based solar telescopes and revitalized ground ...
Jose Marino, Thomas R. Rimmele
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Optical-component-only adaptive optics
This Letter introduces a technique for performing binary adaptive optics, which is carried out by optical components only, without the help of any electronic or optoelectronic device. In this technique, the interferogram produced by a point diffraction interferometer modulates a light-driven crystal. The modulated light-driven crystal may produce pupil-
Pérez Cagigal, Manuel+4 more
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