What can we teach using adaptive optics?

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

doi:10.1117/12.2070278

17 July 2014 What can we teach using adaptive optics?

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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Proceedings Volume 9289, 12th Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference; 928906 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070278
Event: 12th Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference, 2013, Porto, Portugal

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Adaptive optics (AO) is a powerful technique to sharpen images that are blurred for example due to atmospheric turbulence or aberrations of the eye. Originally developed for defense applications over a period of 40 years or so, they have found enormous applications in the astronomical and vision research communities. This paper provides an overview of adaptive optics techniques. Using principles of AO, it is possible to develop a laboratory that teaches various optics concepts, including aberration theory, at many levels. In addition, AO can teach students some fundamentals of control theory.

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Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan "What can we teach using adaptive optics?", Proc. SPIE 9289, 12th Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference, 928906 (17 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070278

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