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Field guide to adaptive optics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyson, Robert K., 1948-
Other Authors: Frazier, Benjamin W. (Benjamin West)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Press, [2004]
Series:SPIE field guides.
Subjects:
Optics, Adaptive.
Optical detectors.
Optical measurements.
Table of Contents:
  • Conventional adaptive optics system
  • Image spread with atmospheric turbulence
  • The principle of phase conjugation
  • Point spread function for an astronomical telescope
  • Modeling the effect of atmospheric turbulence
  • Fried's coherence length
  • Astronomical "brightness"
  • Isoplanatic angle
  • Zernike polynomials
  • Atmospheric turbulence models
  • Coherence length for various wavelengths and
  • Turbulence models
  • Variations in commonly used turbulence models
  • Wind models
  • Kolmogorov model
  • Greenwood frequency
  • Power spectrum of Kolmogorov turbulence
  • Angle of arrival fluctuations (image motion)
  • Modulation transfer function
  • Image quality with increased mtf
  • Beam propagation
  • Laser "brightness"
  • Strehl ratio--laser beam propagation to the far
  • Field with wavefront error
  • Strehl ratio
  • Spot size for a Gaussian spot
  • Spot size for a uniform circular aperture
  • System performance estimation
  • System performance estimation
  • Fitting error (modal)
  • Fitting error (zonal)
  • Temporal error
  • Partial correction
  • Focal anisoplanatism (the "cone effect")
  • Scintillation
  • Wavefront sensors
  • Wavefront sensor requirements
  • Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor
  • Wavefront sensor signal-to-noise ratio
  • Shearing interferometer wavefront sensor
  • Shearing interferometer wavefront sensor noise
  • Curvature wavefront sensor
  • Curvature wavefront sensor error
  • Deformable mirrors
  • Tilt mirror requirements
  • Deformable mirror requirements
  • Deformable mirror actuator configurations
  • Actuator and wavefront sensor layouts
  • Actuators, requirements for zonal or modal control
  • Deformable mirror influence function models
  • Bimorph mirrors
  • Microelectromechanical (MEMS) membrane mirrors
  • Segmented deformable mirrors
  • Control and reconstruction
  • Adaptive optics system control model
  • Reconstructor
  • Wavefront control
  • Influence matrix
  • Kalman filtering and wavefront estimation
  • Computational latency
  • Hartmann sensing software implementation
  • Predictor
  • Effect of sampling rate on achievable bandwidth.