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This volume is focused on a wide range of topics, including adaptive optic components and tools, wavefront sensing, different control algorithms, astronomy, and propagation through turbulent and turbid media.

Optics, Adaptive. --- Optics, Adaptive --- History. --- Adaptive optics --- Aberration

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The 12 peer-reviewed papers collected here together offer a plenitude of up-to-date information on ""Smart & Adaptive Optics"". The papers are conveniently arranged into: Chapter 1: Nano-photonics, Chapter 2: Active Optical Materials and Devices, Chapter 3: Adaptive Optics. Review from Book News Inc.: The 12 papers in this collection were presented at the Smart and Adaptive Optics symposium of the CIMTEC 2012 Fourth International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures, and Systems held in Montecatini Terme, Italy in June 2012. The three general topics are nanophotonics, active optical mater

Optics, Adaptive. --- Smart materials --- Adaptive optics --- Aberration

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Presenting state-of-the-art research into the dynamic field of tunable micro-optics, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey covering a varied range of topics including novel materials, actuation concepts and new imaging systems in optics. Internationally renowned researchers present a diverse range of chapters on cutting-edge materials, devices and subsystems, including soft matter, artificial muscles, tunable lenses and apertures, photonic crystals, and complete tunable imagers. Special contributions also provide in-depth treatment of micro-optical characterisation, scanners, and the use of natural eye models as inspiration for new concepts in advanced optics. With applications extending from medical diagnosis to fibre telecommunications, Tunable Micro-optics equips readers with a solid understanding of the broader technical context through its interdisciplinary approach to the realisation of new types of optical systems. This is an essential resource for engineers in industry and academia, and advanced students working on optical systems design.

Tunable microlenses. --- Optics, Adaptive. --- Micro-optics. --- Microoptics --- Miniaturized optics --- Microtechnology --- Optics --- Adaptive optics --- Aberration --- Tunable micro-optics --- Microlenses --- Optics, Adaptive

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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