Field Guide to Adaptive Optics

Field Guide to Adaptive Optics
Author: Robert K. Tyson
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Optical detectors
ISBN: 9780819490179

Provides a summary of the methods for determining the requirements of an adaptive optics system, the performance of the system, and the requirements for the components of the system. This second edition has a greatly expanded presentation of adaptive optics control system design and operation. Discussions of control models are accompanied by various recommendations for implementing the algorithms in hardware.

Adaptive Optics in Astronomy

Adaptive Optics in Astronomy
Author: François Roddier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 1999-06-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 052155375X

Adaptive optics is set to revolutionise the future of astronomy; this is the first book on the subject and is set to become the standard reference.

Introduction to Adaptive Optics

Introduction to Adaptive Optics
Author: Robert K. Tyson
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2000
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780819435118

Adaptive optics systems and components have achieved a level of sophistication and simplicity that goes beyond traditional applications in astronomy and the military and into developments in medicine, manufacturing, and communications. This book was written for those interested in the multidisciplinary technology and those who need a broad-brush explanation without wading through thousands of journal articles. It follows the structure of a one-day tutorial taught by the author, including humor and sidebars of historical material.

Principles of Adaptive Optics

Principles of Adaptive Optics
Author: Robert Tyson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439808597

Since the publication of the second edition of Principles of Adaptive Optics, the developments and applications in this area have increased tremendously. Observatories are now producing outstanding science through adaptive optics technology; components, such as micromachined deformable mirrors and very low noise detectors, are revolutionizing the f

Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics

Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics
Author: Larry C. Andrews
Publisher: Society of Photo Optical
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780819453181

The material in this Field Guide is a condensed version of similar material found in two textbooks: Laser Beam Propagation through Random Media (SPIE Vol. PM53) and Laser Beam Scintillation with Applications (SPIE Vol. PM99). Topics chosen for this concise presentation include a review of classical Kolmogorov turbulence theory, Gaussian-beam waves in free space, and atmospheric effects on a propagating optical wave. These atmospheric effects have great importance in a variety of applications like imaging, free space optical communications, laser radar, and remote sensing. This Guide presents tractable mathematical models from which the practitioner can readily determine beam spreading, beam wander, spatial coherence radius (Fried's parameter), angle of arrival fluctuations, scintillation, aperture averaging effects, fade probabilities, bit error-rates, and enhanced backscatter effects, among others.

Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation

Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation
Author: Christoph U. Keller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Astronomical instruments
ISBN: 9781628411775

A concise, organised reference that explains the functions and configurations of astronomical instrumentation. It provides an overview of aspects of astronomical instrumentation from principles of general optics and optical design to optical manufacturing and systems engineering.

Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine

Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine
Author: Christopher Dainty
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1848161115

This proceedings volume presents the very latest developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics. This international workshop, the sixth in a biennial series, was the largest ever held and boasted significant involvement by industry. Adaptive optics is on the verge of being used in many products; indeed, at this meeting, the use of adaptive optics in DVD players was disclosed for the first time. Sample Chapter(s). Liquid Crystal Lenses For Correction Of Presbyopia (586 KB). Contents: Wavefront Correctors and Control: Liquid Crystal Lenses for Correction of Presbyopia (G Li & N Peyghambarian); Woofer-Tweeter Adaptive Optics (T Farrell & C Dainty); Wavefront Sensors: A Fundamental Limit for Wavefront Sensing (C Paterson); Direct Diffractive Image Simulation (A P Maryasov et al.); Adaptive Optics in Vision Science: A Study of Field Aberrations in the Human Eye (A V Goncharov et al.); Characterization of an AO-OCT System (J W Evans et al.); Adaptive Optics in Optical Storage and Microscopy: Commercialization of the Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM) (B Potsaid et al.); Towards Four Dimensional Particle Tracking for Biological Applications (H I Campbell et al.); Adaptive Optics in Lasers: New Results in High Power Lasers Beam Correction (A Kudryashov et al.); Adaptive Optics Control of Solid-State Lasers (W Lubeigt et al.); Adaptive Optics in Communication and Atmospheric Compensation: Fourier Image Sharpness Sensor for Laser Communications (K N Walker & R K Tyson); Adaptive Optics System for a Small Telescope (G Vdovin et al.); and other papers. Readership: Industry- and university-level researchers in optics and laser physics.

Optical Communications Rules of Thumb

Optical Communications Rules of Thumb
Author: John Lester Miller
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2002-12-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0071500901

This engineering tool provides over 200 time and cost saving rules of thumb--short cuts, tricks, and methods that optical communications veterans have developed through long years of trial and error. * DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork) rules * Information Transmission, fiber optics, and systems rules