Adaptive Optics: Recent Technological Breakthroughs and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 700
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptive optics; high angular resolution imaging; propagation through turbulent media
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: adaptive optics; flexible lenses; propagation through turbulent media; wavefront sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adaptive Optics techniques and applications have gone way beyond the correction of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere and are now in use in a wide variety of applications, from medicine to industry, from underwater imaging to Free Space Laser Communications.
We are pleased to invite you to submit manuscripts for the upcoming special issue of the Photonics journal on Adaptive Optics.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers on all aspects of Adaptive Optics. The special issue will focus, but won't be limited to:
- Wavefront Sensing
- Novel Adaptive Optics systems
- Algorithms
- Closed-loop performance enhancers
- In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sergio Restaino
Dr. Freddie Santiago
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Photonics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- adaptive optics
- active optics
- wavefront sensing
- aberrations
- algorithms
- closed loop
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