deformable-mirror optics

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

• 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

• Tilt (optics) — In optics, the term tilt is a deviation in the direction a beam of light propagates. Tilt quantizes the average slope in both the X and Y directions of a wavefront or phase profile across the pupil of an optical system. In conjunction with Piston …   Wikipedia

• Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator — (MAD), is a device that allows the ESO VLT to observe celestial objects better through Earth s atmosphere. MAD provides the observer with an image free from the blurring effect created by atmospheric turbulence. The system uses a computer… …   Wikipedia

• adaptive optics — noun An optical system in telescopes that reduces atmospheric distortion by dynamically measuring and correcting wavefront aberrations in real time, often by using a deformable mirror …   Wiktionary

• 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

• Monolithic Mirror Telescope — Observatoire MMT L observatoire MMT (en anglais MMT Observatory ou MMTO) est un observatoire astronomique situé sur le site de l observatoire Fred Lawrence Whipple (code observatoire UAI 696). L observatoire Whipple est situé sur le Mount Hopkins …   Wikipédia en Français

• Multiple Mirror Telescope — Observatoire MMT L observatoire MMT (en anglais MMT Observatory ou MMTO) est un observatoire astronomique situé sur le site de l observatoire Fred Lawrence Whipple (code observatoire UAI 696). L observatoire Whipple est situé sur le Mount Hopkins …   Wikipédia en Français

• 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