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Adaptive optics system

Definition

Adaptive optics are real-time distortion-compensating systems which are used for improving image or beam quality in an optical system with (dynamic) aberrations.

Theory and Application

Introduction

Adaptive optics systems (or adaptive optics, AO) are used for real-time compensation of aberration in optical systems. AOs are employed in optical systems where image or beam quality is limited by dynamic aberration induced by the propagation medium, e.g., atmospheric turbulence, laser device aberration, thermal lenses induced by high power beams in optics, or optical fabrication errors (Tyson 1998).

First developments of AOs started in the 1950s and 1960s with the aim to improve the imaging quality of astronomical instruments. Since then, the range of applications has broadened to other fields of optical engineering, including, e.g., human retinal imaging (Ling 2003), confocal microscopy (Tao et al. 2011), intracavity adaptive-optics in laser...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut für Transport- und Automatisierungstechnik, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Garbsen, Germany

    Ludger Overmeyer

  2. LG Technology Center Europe (LG Electronics EU Office), Düsseldorf, Germany

    Viktor Schütz

  3. Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

    Jan Friedrich Düsing

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  1. IUL-Inst, Tech Univ Dortmund IUL-Inst, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Sami Chatti

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive - Stop 8220, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    M. Alkan Donmez

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Overmeyer, L., Schütz, V., Düsing, J.F. (2018). Adaptive Optics. In: Chatti, S., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_16708-1

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