Adaptive optics relies on wave-front sensors to measure ... The deformable mirror, designed to correct aberrations for astronomy and laser communications, contains 1,024 actuators in a 32 × ...

The technology behind adaptive optics was originally developed by the defence industry for propagating laser beams into space, but has since become an essential technology in astronomy.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and ...

Adaptive optics corrects the problem. The system—using lasers, deformable mirrors, and supercomputers—is enabling some ground telescopes to get better images than the Hubble Space Telescope.

The instrument, dubbed Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme, or MagAO-X ... in technology," said Laird Close, a professor of astronomy at Steward Observatory, in the U of A College of Science, adding ...

Wave‐front errors of 83 nm with the current Chicago Adaptive Optics System (ChAOS ... Foundation under cooperative agreement AST 89‐921756 and by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the ...

While this region of Galactic Globular Cluster M3 appears to harbor only a few fuzzy stars when viewed through conventional ground-based telescope optics (left), laser adaptive optics brings out ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/424805 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/424805 ABSTRACT Ground‐layer adaptive optics (GLAO) promises a significant improvement in ...