Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

By: D.M. Alloin (Editor), Jean-Marie Mariotti (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 1994

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For many astronomers, Adaptive Optics is something like a dream coming true. Sinee 1609 and the first observations of celestial bodies performed with the help of an optieal teleseope, astronomers have always fighted to improve the 'resolving power' of their instruments. For a long time, engineers have trimmed the optieal quality of the teleseopes, until they finally reaehed the barrier set by the atmospherie turbulence, a few seconds of are. At that point, the intrinsic quality of the site beeame a major issue to establish new observatories with modern telescopes, and astronomers started to desert the urban skies and to migrate toward mountains and deserts. This quest has been sueeessful and a few privileged sites, where the average natural 'seeing' is close to 0. 5", are now hosting clusters of giant telescopes of the 4 m and soon 10 m class. Yet, this atmospherie limit corresponds in the visible wavelength range to the diffraetion limit of a 20 em telescope only. The loss was severe: a faetor 20 in angular and several hundred in peak energy eoncentration, i. e. in deteetivity of resolution very faint objeets. In the beginning of the seventies, two doors half opened to provide a way out of this dead-end. First, the technique of speckle interferometry (and its various related developments) has allowed to restore the diffraetion limit of large telescopes at visible and infrared wavelengths (see, e. g.

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Optical Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics Engineering & Technology Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Meteorology & Climatology Astronomy, Space & Time

Theoretical & Mathematical Astronomy Other Technologies & Applied Sciences Applied Optics Laser Technology & Holography

Preface
List of Participants
Photograph
Introduction to Wave Optics	p. 3
Atmospheric Turbulence Optical Effects: Understanding the Adaptive-Optics Implications	p. 25
Atmospheric Adaptive Optics Applications	p. 59
Modelling Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Ground-Based Telescope Systems	p. 65
Servo-Loop Analysis for Adaptive Optics	p. 73
The Problematic of Adaptive Optics Design	p. 89
Wavefront Sensing	p. 115
Optimization of Wavefront Sensors for the Highest Accuracy and Sensitivity	p. 139
Deformable Mirrors	p. 149
Astronomical Reference Sources	p. 163
Sodium-Layer Laser Guide Stars	p. 175
Synthetic Beacons for Atmospheric Compensation	p. 185
Sodium Beacon Used for Adaptive Optics on the Multiple Mirror Telescope	p. 205
Evaluating the Performance of Adaptive Optical Telescopes	p. 211
Integrated Adaptive Optics Systems	p. 227
Stray Radiation Issues in Astronomical Systems with Adaptive Optics	p. 237
Active Compensation of Global Wavefront Tilts at Solar Telescopes: Present Status of an Electronic Development	p. 249
The Impact of Adaptive Optics on Focal Plane Instrumentation	p. 269
Prospects for Alternative Approaches to Adaptive Optics	p. 287
Adaptive Optics for Long Baseline Optical Interferometry	p. 309
Astrophysics with Adaptive Optics: Results and Challenges	p. 321
Subject Index	p. 335
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