Adaptive Optics Systems and Some Cool Things About Light Beams

Adaptive Optics Systems and Some Cool Things About Light Beams

Book: Lighter Side of Adaptive Optics

Author(s): Robert K. Tyson

Published: 2009

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2054334.ch3

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Abstract

Beams of light have intensity and phase. The atmosphere slows down one beam with respect to another beam and they interfere with each other, blurring the image. An adaptive optics system consists of a wavefront sensor, a reconstructor, and a deformable mirror, all working together.

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KEYWORDS

Adaptive optics

Phase measurement

Luminescence

Deformable mirrors

Wavefront sensors

Atmospheric optics

Wavefronts

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