Principles of Adaptive Optics

Principles of Adaptive Optics

<P><STRONG>Principles of Adaptive Optics</STRONG> describes the foundations, principles, and applications of adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. Addressing the fundamentals of AO at the core of new uses in biomedical imaging, communications, high-energy lasers, and astronomy, this fully revised and significantly expanded <STRONG>Fourth Edition</STRONG>:</P> <UL> <P> <LI>Contains all-new problem sets at the end of each chapter</LI> <LI>Incorporates cutting-edge research, with hundreds of new citations</LI> <LI>Adds a new section on the practical implications of control algorithms</LI> <LI>Includes a practical roadmap for developing a viable stable multichannel control system</LI> <LI>Presents new practical calibration techniques and new information on phase diversity for wavefront sensing</LI> <LI>Updates coverage of AO systems―e.g., confocal AO scanning ophthalmoscopes and National Ignition Facility (NIF) beam path AO</LI> <LI>Features fresh material on multiconjugate adaptive optics, extra-solar planet detection, optical coherence tomography, pyramid wavefront sensors, micromachined deformable mirrors, and more</LI> <P></P></UL> <P><STRONG>Principles of Adaptive Optics, Fourth Edition </STRONG>provides a complete update of the most definitive text for the field.</P>