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  1. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : Fluorescent microspheres enable adaptive -optics microscopy

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    Sun, 1 Feb 2009

    Adaptive optics has tantalized researchers looking ..... investigations. The idea of using adaptive optics (AO) to solve this problem is compelling ..... measuring the wavefront, though, most adaptive - optics microscopes have sought to correct

  2. Imagine Optic delivers adaptive optics systems to Orion high-power laser

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    Tue, 16 Dec 2008

    Hartmann wavefront metrology and adaptive optics solutions, has delivered laser metrology and adaptive optics systems to Britain's Atomic ..... since the 1970s--by 2010. The adaptive optics system will be used at the end

  1. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : Index matching offers a low-cost route to complex optics

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    Sun, 1 Jan 2006

    and optimize performance of adaptive - optics systems. STEVEN M. EBSTEIN ..... application-the testing of adaptive - optics systems-stands out for this ..... Near-Index-Match optics. Adaptive optics Light propagation over long

  2. Adaptive optics sharpens multiphoton-microscope images

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    Sat, 1 Jan 2005

    astronomy and military use, adaptive - optics is coming into its own for use ..... overcome these limits by using adaptive - optics technology originally developed ..... scanned across the specimen. Adaptive - optics technology developed for astronomy

  3. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : New algorithm improves AO systems without wavefront sensors

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    Tue, 25 Jan 2011

    a wavefront-sensor-less adaptive - optics system and a novel model-based ..... GEORG SCHITTER, and GLEB VDOVIN Adaptive - optics (AO) systems have been widely ..... REFERENCES 1. J.W. Hardy, Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes

  4. Air Force restrictions impact astronomical adaptive optics

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    Thu, 5 Nov 2009

    significantly diminishing the utility of adaptive optics for studying the cosmos , as ..... said Julian Christou, the adaptive - optics technician for the Gemini North ..... loss." Laser-guide-star adaptive optics involves shining powerful lasers

  5. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : Liquid crystals lower the cost of adaptive optics

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    Wed, 1 Dec 1999

    correctors widen the range of applications for adaptive optics . Michael H. Anderson Adaptive optics is a maturing science and has proven its ..... and open up new applications. Traditional adaptive - optics systems for astronomical imaging command

  6. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : Tomography promises better stargazing

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    Mon, 1 May 2000

    Thanks to adaptive - optics systems installed on large ground ..... resolve to 0.034 arc sec using adaptive optics (see Laser Focus World, May 1999 ..... own guide star.) Conventional adaptive - optics systems, however, suffer from

  7. ADAPTIVE OPTICS : Adaptive -optics simulator studies binocular vision

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    Sun, 1 Nov 2009

    Adaptive - optics (AO) technology is actively applied in the field of ophthalmology ..... degradation in the binocular case was not symmetric. “This type of adaptive - optics technology applied to simulate and test vision offers a tremendous

  8. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS: OCT sees the human retina sharply with adaptive optics

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    Wed, 1 Feb 2006

    optical-coherence tomography with adaptive optics that compensate for the eye ..... developed countries. OCT using adaptive optics The solution for improving lateral ..... ophthalmic OCT imaging is the use of adaptive optics (AO) to correct for the aberrations