Adaptive optical systems and applications : 10-11 July, 1995, San Diego, California /

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Imprint:Bellingham, Wash., USA : SPIE, c1995.
Description:ix, 426 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Proceedings / SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 2534
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 2534.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2386915
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Other authors / contributors:Tyson, Robert K., 1948-
Fugate, Robert Q.
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
ISBN:0819418935
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and author index.
Table of Contents:
  • Fasttrac II near-IR adaptive optics system for the Multiple Mirror Telescope: description and preliminary results
  • Design analysis and simulations for the Multiple Mirror Telescope's infrared adaptive optics system
  • Performance of laser guide star adaptive optics at Lick Observatory
  • Laser beacon system for the UnISIS adaptive optics system at the Mount Wilson 2.5-m telescope
  • United Kingdom adaptive optics program
  • Visible-wavelength diffraction-limited imaging using low-order adaptive optics
  • Natural guide star AO system for the William Herschel Telescope
  • First tests of the Cassegrain adaptive optics system of the Mount Wilson 100-in telescope
  • Multisegment coherent beam combining
  • Optical and control modeling for adaptive beam-combining experiments
  • Adaptive beam-combining mirror for the MMT
  • Technology, characterization, and applications of adaptive mirrors fabricated with IC-compatible micromachining
  • Design and prototype tests of an adaptive secondary mirror for the new 6.5-m single-mirror MMT
  • Techniques for optical fabrication of a 2-mm-thick adaptive secondary mirror
  • Optical measurements of a prototype adaptive-optic secondary mirror
  • Sodium beacon laser system for the Lick Observatory
  • Experiments to assess the effectiveness of multiple laser guide stars for adaptively corrected telescopes
  • Binary optical correction of wavefront aberration using spatial light modulators
  • Analysis and calibration of natural guide star adaptive optics data
  • Investigation of wavefront estimators using the Wavefront Control Experiment at Yerkes Observatory
  • Real-time reconstructor for adaptive secondary control of the 6.5-m single-mirror MMT
  • Method for optimizing closed-loop adaptive optics wavefront reconstruction algorithms on the basis of experimentally measured performance data
  • Blind deconvolution post-processing of images corrected by adaptive optics
  • Frame selection performance limits for statistical image reconstruction of adaptive optics compensated images
  • Profiles of nighttime turbulence above Mauna Kea and isoplanatism extension in adaptive optics
  • Infrared wavefronts on Mauna Kea
  • Comparison of Shack-Hartmann and curvature sensing for large telescopes
  • Shot noise performance of Hartmann and shearing interferometer wavefront sensors
  • Imaging in turbulence beyond diffraction limits
  • Atmospheric turbulence-induced phase screen generator for simulating the effects of finite outer scale, time delays, and anisoplanatism
  • Pupil-imaging wavefront gradient sensor
  • Optimum matching of wavefront sensor and wavefront corrector
  • Performance measurements of generation III wavefront sensors at the Starfire Optical Range
  • Specialized wavefront sensors for adaptive optics
  • Numerical model of adaptive optical system controlled by a feedforward neural network
  • Noise reduction and key atmospheric parameter estimation using artificial neural networks
  • 6.5-m MMT infrared adaptive optics system: detailed design and progress report
  • Adaptive optics system for direct imaging of extra-solar planets from the ground
  • W. M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics program
  • Performance predictions for the Keck telescope adaptive optics system
  • Near-infrared astronomy with adaptive optics and laser guide stars at the Keck Observatory