Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique of precisely deforming a mirror in order to compensate for light distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes...

guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct...

(August 1994). A Study of an Adaptive Secondary Mirror. ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings. Active and adaptive optics. Garching, Germany: ESO. pp...

performance. They utilize adaptive optics technology to counteract atmospheric blurring. Notably, Gemini leads in wide-field adaptive optics assisted infrared...

20–30% of older adaptive optic systems, or the 1% typically achieved without adaptive optics for telescopes of this size. Adaptive optics at a telescope's...

Magellan Telescope’s Adaptive Secondary Mirror consists of seven segments about 1.1 meters in diameter. They are deformable “adaptive optics” mirrors tasked...

from SLO. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) is a technique used to measure living retinal cells. It utilizes adaptive optics to remove...

imaging, and high-resolution imaging. In particular, the VLT has several adaptive optics systems, which correct for the effects of atmospheric turbulence, providing...

of turbulent atmosphere. Advanced observatories have started using adaptive optics technology, resulting in greater image resolution for faint targets...

the Hubble Space Telescope and of large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics allowed for detailed observations. Neptune was visited by Voyager 2...

Cambridge announced the first results from a new hybrid lucky imaging and adaptive optics (AO) system. The new camera gave the first diffraction-limited resolutions...

(14 ft) diameter secondary mirror. The telescope is equipped with adaptive optics, six laser guide star units, and various large-scale scientific instruments...

telescopes and improving image quality, known as active optics and adaptive optics. In active optics, an image analyser senses the aberrations of a star image...

possible without adaptive optics. However, only about 1 percent of the night sky is close enough to a natural guide star to use adaptive optics, so various...

to mid-infrared (0.31 to 28 μm wavelengths) observations, featuring adaptive optics to assist in correcting image blur. The TMT will be at the highest...

Three-photon adaptive optics microscopy (3PAOM) is a technology that implements adaptive optics to correct wavefront aberrations produced by three-photon...

Today, many large scientific ground-based optical telescopes include adaptive optics to overcome seeing. The strength of seeing is often characterized by...

astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of...

Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) is an instrument that allowed the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to observe celestial...

2022. Max, Claire (2001). "Introduction to Adaptive Optics and its History" (PDF). Center for Adaptive Optics. Archived (PDF) from the original on April...

capillaries of the retina has been directly observed in human subjects by adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, a real time imaging technique for examining...

combination with wavefront sensors and real-time control systems in adaptive optics. In 2006 they found a new use in femtosecond pulse shaping. The shape...

Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. In 2013 Trujillo became head of the Adaptive Optics/Telescope Department at the Gemini Observatory, and continued until...

NIRC-2 The second generation Near Infrared Camera works with the Keck Adaptive Optics system to produce the highest-resolution ground-based images and spectroscopy...

configuration that provides a 4-meter clear, unobstructed aperture. Adaptive optics correct for atmospheric distortions and blurring of the solar image...

distribution. Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument is a high-contrast...

many scientific achievements and presented ADONIS, one of the first adaptive optics system available to the astronomical community in the 1980s. Since...

the Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Keck telescope using adaptive optics. After Voyager 2 visited Saturn successfully, it was decided to fund...

II (Clay) telescope. In 2013, Clay (Magellan II) was equipped with an adaptive secondary mirror called MagAO which allowed it to take the sharpest visible-light...

2019, generated multi-chord data sets and have been used along with adaptive optics imaging and three-dimensional modeling to estimate Psyche's mean diameter...