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For over four decades there has been continuous progress in adaptive optics technology, theory, and systems development. Recently there also has been an explosion of applications of adaptive optics throughout the fields of communications and medicine in addition to its original uses in astronomy and beam propagation. This volume is a compilation of research and tutorials from a variety of international authors with expertise in theory, engineering, and technology. Eight chapters include discussion of retinal imaging, solar astronomy, wavefront-sensorless adaptive optics systems, liquid crystal wavefront correctors, membrane deformable mirrors, digital adaptive optics, optical vortices, and coupled anisoplanatism.

Optics, Adaptive. --- Adaptive optics --- Aberration --- Laser physics

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Adaptive optics can used in many products. This book presents developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics.

Optics, Adaptive --- Lasers in medicine --- Adaptive optics --- Aberration --- Industrial applications

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Duffner has compiled the history of the most revolutionary breakthrough in astronomy since Galileo pointed his telescope skyward--the technology that will greatly expand our understanding of the universe.

Optics, Adaptive --- Laser guide star adaptive optics. --- Lasers --- Space telescopes. --- History. --- Research --- Military applications.

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Many laser applications depend on the ability of a particular laser to be frequency tunable. Among the many different types of frequency tunable lasers are: dye lasers, excimer lasers, and semiconductor lasers. Thisbook gives active researchers and engineers the practical information they need to choose an appropriate tunable laser for their particular applications.Key Features* Presents a unified and integrated perspective on tunable lasers* Includes sources spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from the UV to the FIR* Contains 182 figures and 68 tables* Provides cover

Tunable lasers. --- Lasers. --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Lasers --- Optics, Adaptive

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Astrophysics is facing challenging aims such as deep cosmology at redshift higher than 10 to constrain cosmology models, or the detection of exoplanets, and possibly terrestrial exoplanets, and several others. It requires unprecedented ambitious R&D programs, which have definitely to rely on a tight cooperation between astrophysics and optics communities. The book addresses most of the most critical interdisciplinary domains where they interact, or where they will do. A first need is to collect more light, i.e. telescopes still larger than the current 8-10 meter class ones. Decametric, and even hectometric, optical (from UV to IR wavelengths) telescopes are being studied. Whereas up to now the light collecting surface of new telescopes was approximately 4 times that of the previous generation, now this factor is growing to 10 to 100. This quantum leap urges to implement new methods or technologies developed in the optics community, both in academic labs and in the industry. Given the astrophysical goals and technological constraints, new generation adaptive optics with a huge number of actuators and laser guide stars devices have to be developed, from theoretical bases to experimental works. Two other newcomers in observational astrophysics are interferometric arrays of optical telescopes and gravitational wave detectors. Up-to-date reviews of detectors and of spectrographs are given, as well as forefront R&D in the field of optical coatings and of guided optics. Possible new ways to handle photons are also addressed, based on quantum physics. More and more signal processing algorithms are a part and parcel of any modern instrumentation. Thus finally the book gives two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill conditioned cases.

Space optics --- Astrophysics --- Space interferometry --- Telescopes --- Optics, Adaptive --- Optique spatiale --- Astrophysique --- Interférométrie stellaire optique --- Télescopes --- Optique adaptative --- Congresses. --- Observations --- Design and construction --- Congrès --- Conception et construction --- Astrophysics. --- Optics, Adaptive. --- Space interferometry. --- Space optics. --- Telescopes. --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Interférométrie stellaire optique --- Télescopes --- Congrès --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVPHYSI SPRINGER-B --- Astronomical physics --- Physics. --- Image processing. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Congresses --- Optics [Adaptive ] --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics