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• Deformable mirror — A deformable mirror can be used to correct wavefront errors in an astronomical telescope …   Wikipedia

• deformable — adjective Capable of being reshaped. The adaptive optical systems in modern astronomical telescopes compensate for atmospheric distortion by using deformable mirrors …   Wiktionary

• Adaptive optics — (AO) is a technology used to improve the performance of optical systems by reducing the effects of rapidly changing optical distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes and laser communication systems to remove the effects of atmospheric… …   Wikipedia

• Thirty Meter Telescope — The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be a ground based astronomical observatory with a 30 metre (98 foot) diameter segmented mirror capable of observations from the near ultraviolet to the mid infrared (0.31 to 28 micrometres). An adaptive… …   Wikipedia

• HiPER — The High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), is an experimental laser driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device undergoing preliminary design for possible construction in the European Union starting around 2010. HiPER is the first …   Wikipedia

• Mirror — looking glass redirects here. For other uses, see Looking Glass (disambiguation). This article is about wave reflectors (mainly, specular reflection of visible light). For other uses, see Mirror (disambiguation). A mirror, reflecting a vase A… …   Wikipedia

• Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy — Retinal image of a left eye via Optos Optomap. Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) is a method of examination of the eye. It uses the technique of confocal laser scanning microscopy for diagnostic imaging of retina or cornea of the human eye. As… …   Wikipedia

• History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …   Wikipedia

• Active optics — is a relatively new technology for reflecting telescopes developed in the 1980s, which has more recently enabled the construction of a generation of telescopes with 8 metre primary mirrors. Active optics works by actively adjusting the telescope… …   Wikipedia

• MMT Observatory — The MMT Observatory (MMTO) is an astronomical observatory on the site of Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (IAU observatory code 696). The Whipple observatory complex is located on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, USA (55 km south of Tucson) in the… …   Wikipedia

• Digital micromirror device — DLP chip A digital micromirror device, or DMD, is an optical semiconductor that is the core of DLP projection technology[1], and was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. William E. Ed Nelson of Texas Instruments (TI) in 1987. The DMD project… …   Wikipedia