Compact Adaptive Optics Systems (CAOS)

Abstract

As feasibility study has been conducted to investigate whether compact adaptive optical (AO) systems based on the use of transparent wavefront modulators are viable. The results presented here consider the generic properties of suitable wavefront sensor technologies and establish sufficient conditions for their exploitation. Schemes by means of which these properties might be exploited in a multi-conjugate AO system are then considered. It is shown that the prospects for such systems are good, but further work is required to establish necessary conditions and to optimize the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 27, 2002
Accession Number
ADA406783

Entities

People

  • A. H. Greenway

Organizations

  • Heriot-Watt University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Contracts
  • Curvature
  • Data Processing
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Geometry
  • Gratings (Spectra)
  • Intensity
  • Measurement
  • Modulators
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Simulations
  • Universities
  • Wavefronts

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design