Adaptive Optics: Methods and Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the first scientific application of Adaptive Optics technology, with COME-ON (Rigault et al., A&A, 250, 280 (1991)) on the 3.6 m ESO telescope in 1989, the scientific results enabled by this technology have grown dramatically. Currently, all major telescopes (VLT, Keck, CFHT, Gemini, Subaru, LBT) are equipped with Adaptive Optics systems, which make future giant telescopes feasible, such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The aim of Adaptive Optics correction is to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion and concentrate the light of the Point Spread Function (PSF) to a nearly diffraction-limited core to improve the angular resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio.
Currently, Adaptive Optics has found interesting applications in other domains outside of astronomy, such as laser communication systems, microscopy, and retinal imaging systems. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together leading experts worldwide that employ cutting-edge adaptive optics technologies for applications in a variety of research fields.
Dr. Sicong He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adaptive optics in astronomical instrumentation
- adaptive optics for microscopy
- adaptive optics applications
- existing and future adaptive optics systems
- artificial beacons for wavefront sensing
- machine learning in adaptive optics
- control algorithms
- adaptive optics systems modeling and simulations
- wavefront sensing and sensors
- wavefront correction and correctors
- real-time control systems
- characterization and forecasting of wavefront disturbances
- post-processing for AO-corrected instrument data
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Published Papers
Photonics - ISSN 2304-6732