| Description |
xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. History and Background -- 2. Sources of Aberrations -- 3. Adaptive Optics Compensation -- 4. Adaptive Optics Systems -- 5. Wavefront Sensing -- 6. Wavefront Correction -- 7. Reconstruction and Controls |
| Summary |
Adaptive optics has progressed from the laboratory and field experiments into surveillance systems, optical testing, medical research, and astronomical observatories around the world. A student, engineer, or scientist needs a single volume that describes all the basic principles, analytical tools, and instrumentation hardware that becomes an adaptive optics system. With hundreds of references, this book provides a road map to the design and performance analysis of adaptive optics wavefront sensors, controls, correcting optics and their integral operation. From the interested person just trying to find the buzzwords of adaptive optics to the experienced engineer looking for the equations that describe atmospheric compensation, Principles of Adaptive Optics will meet the goal |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: c1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-332) and index |
| Subject |
Optics, Adaptive.
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| LC no. |
97035786 |
| ISBN |
0127059024 (acid-free paper) |
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