Adaptive optics in astronomy : 17-18 March 1994, Kona, Hawaii /

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Imprint:Bellingham, Wash., USA : SPIE, c1994.
Description:xiv, 1164 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Proceedings / SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 2201
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering v. 2201.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1672272
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Other authors / contributors:Ealey, Mark A.
Merkle, F. (Fritz)
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
American Astronomical Society
ISBN:0819414964
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and author index.
Table of Contents:
  • Adaptive optics at the University of Hawaii I: current performance at the telescope
  • Observations of faint objects with laser beacon adaptive optics
  • W.M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics program
  • Adaptive optics system for the Very Large Telescope
  • Beams and image formation with adaptive correction
  • Adaptive optics: a general purpose system for astronomy
  • Wavefront compensation using active lenses
  • Synthetic aperture adaptive optics concept
  • Analysis and simulation of aperture-sizing strategies with partial adaptive optics
  • Optimizing the locations of multiconjugate wavefront correctors
  • Theoretical point-spread function for modal adaptive optics
  • Adaptive optics at the University of Hawaii III: the adaptive optical PSF
  • Anisoplanatism effects on diffraction-based performance calculations in adaptive optical systems
  • Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope adaptive optics bonnette II: simulations and control
  • Adaptive optics for in-orbit spherical aberration correction
  • Fractal nature of atmospherically degraded wavefronts: an aid to prediction
  • Issues in the design and optimization of adaptive optics and laser guide stars for the Keck telescopes
  • Implication of atmospheric models on adaptive optics designs
  • Adaptive optics package designed for astronomical use with a laser guide star tuned to an absorption line of atomic sodium
  • Distortion of light beam and correction of adaptive optics in the atmosphere
  • Optimal wavelength selection for adaptive optics telescopes
  • Software package for adaptive optics performance analysis
  • Impact of segmentation errors and detector quantization on nonsolar planet detection using a space-based adaptive optical telescope
  • Performance simulation and experimental results of low-order adaptive optics systems in conjunction with computer postprocessing
  • Astronomical constraints of laser-beacon adaptive optics systems I: the tracking problem
  • Implementation of cw- and pulsed-laser beacons for astronomical adaptive optics systems
  • Measurement of focus and off-axis anisoplanatism using a sodium resonance beacon and binary stars
  • Simulation and analysis of laser guide star adaptive optics systems for the 8- to 10-m-class telescopes
  • Measurement of atmospheric coherence length and isoplanatic angle
  • High-speed seeing measurements at the Keck Telescope
  • Time series of atmospherically distorted wavefronts
  • Fundamental limitation in adaptive optics: how to eliminate it? A full-aperture tilt measurement technique with a laser guide star
  • Sodium laser guide star system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: system description and experimental results
  • Field evaluation of two new continuous-wave dye laser systems optimized for sodium beacon excitation
  • Design of a fieldable laser system for a sodium guide star
  • Preliminary closed-loop results from an adaptive optics system using a sodium resonance guide star
  • Point-ahead-compensated illumination tests using the 500-channel Innovative Science and Technology Experimental Facility adaptive optics system
  • Compensated imaging over arcminutes with fringes in the sodium layer
  • First light on an edge-matched segmented adaptive mirror at the McMath Telescope
  • Adaptive optics for the 6.5-m single mirror conversion of the Multiple Mirror Telescope
  • Binary adaptive optics: a status report
  • Adaptive optics performance analysis for the Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project
  • Astronomical adaptive optics system for use on a 4-m-class telescope at optical wavelengths
  • High-resolution infrared imaging utilizing a tip-tilt secondary mirror
  • Description of the Chicago Adaptive Optics System (ChAOS)
  • Images of asteroids 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, and 4 Vesta with adaptive optics at the Starfire Optical Range
  • Adaptive optics at Lick Observatory: system architecture and operations
  • Hartmann wavefront sensing with an artificial neural network processor
  • New pupil-plane wavefront gradient sensor
  • Adaptive optics at the University of Hawaii IV: a photon-counting curvature wavefront sensor
  • Performance comparison of the shearing interferometer and Hartmann wavefront sensor
  • Curvature-based wavefront sensor for use on extended patterns
  • Curvature sensing analysis
  • Novel wavefront sensor used in adaptive optics: Zernike polynomials coefficients sensor
  • Single-image wavefront curvature sensing
  • Experiments on wavefront sensing at La Palma
  • Modified Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensing and iterative wavefront reconstruction
  • Multitiered wavefront sensor using binary optics
  • New circular radial-scan frame-storage CCDs for low-order adaptive optics wavefront curvature sensing
  • Development of a low-noise high-frame-rate CCD for adaptive optics
  • Rapid-framing CCDs with 16 output ports for laser guide star sensors
  • Avalanche photodiodes and area CCDs for fast-guiding and wavefront-sensing applications
  • Large-telescope natural guide star adaptive optics system
  • Wavefront reconstruction by machine learning using the delta rule
  • Zernike decomposition of anisoplanatism for laser beacons and natural guide stars
  • Multiframe blind deconvolution with high photon noise
  • Novel avalanche photodiode for adaptive optics
  • Wavefront reconstruction algorithms for astronomical adaptive optics systems
  • Wavefront reconstruction methods for a natural guide star adaptive optics application to the Keck Telescope
  • Xinetics low-cost deformable mirrors with actuator replacement cartridges
  • Adaptive optics: description of available components at Laserdot
  • Bimorph deformable mirror design
  • High-bandwidth interferometer for real-time measurement of deformable mirrors
  • Quasi-hexagonal deformable mirror geometries
  • High-performance deformable mirror for wavefront compensation
  • Effect of hysteresis on the performance of deformable mirrors and methods of its compensation
  • Membrane deformable mirror for SUBARU adaptive optics
  • Efficiency of deformable and segmented mirrors for correction of turbulence-induced wavefront distortions
  • Fabrication and testing of a large active primary reflector structure
  • Interferometric measurement and analysis of influence functions for a large deformable mirror
  • Optimizing a deformable secondary mirror for adaptive optics
  • Highly variable curvature mirrors for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
  • Design and operation of the infrared chopping secondary mirror for the Keck 10-m telescope
  • PUEO: the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope adaptive optics bonnette I: system description
  • Technology for quiet optical systems in space
  • Correctability modeling of a large deformable mirror
  • Artificial intelligence system and optimized modal control for the ADONIS adaptive optics instrument
  • Adaptive optics at the University of Hawaii II: control system with real-time diagnostics
  • Experiments in modeling and control of the ASCIE segmented reflector
  • Adaptive optics: a method for real-time optimization of the loop gains in AO systems
  • Pamela: progress report on a 0.5-m-diam telescope with a 36-segment adaptive primary mirror
  • Experiments with adaptive nonlinear control systems for atmospheric correction
  • Optimizing closed-loop adaptive optics performance using multiple control bandwidths
  • Coupling efficiency of starlight to low-order-mode optical fibers using adaptive optics: rationale and experiments using the Wavefront Control Experiment
  • Adonis: a user-friendly adaptive optics system for the ESO 3.6-m telescope
  • Five-order correction adaptive optics system for meter-class telescopes
  • Study of anisoplanatism using binary stars
  • Low-order adaptive optics and single-mode fibers in stellar interferometry
  • Estimating residual aberrations from images taken at the user focus of a telescope compensated by adaptive optics
  • Nonreciprocal optical systems with phase-conjugating mirrors: the new class of optical imaging systems
  • Wide-aperture laser telescope with the phase-conjugation compensation of the segmented main mirror
  • Segmented mirror control system
  • Optical wavefront corrector based on liquid crystal concept
  • Mirror temperature stabilization and deformation by local heaters
  • Adaptive (immunized) speckle interferometry concept
  • Some features of segmented mirror fabrication and testing
  • New optical systems
  • Correction of anisoplanatic blur by using phase diversity
  • Wavefront control using a 64x64-pixel liquid crystal array
  • UnISIS: University of Illinois Seeing Improvement System (UnISIS)--an adaptive optics instrument for the Mt. Wilson 2.5-m telescope
  • Performance and results of the COME-ON+ adaptive optics system at the ESO 3.6-m telescope
  • Astrophysical results with the COME-ON+ adaptive optics system
  • Performance of adaptive optics at Lick Observatory
  • Field tests of the Wavefront Control Experiment
  • Active optics and coronagraphy with the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Experimental adaptive optics system
  • Adaptive optics with liquid crystal phase screens