Adaptive Optics For Industry And Medicine

This proceedings volume presents the very latest developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics. This international workshop, the sixth in a biennial series, was the largest ever held and boasted significant involvement by industry. Adaptive optics is on the verge of being used in many products; indeed, at this meeting, the use of adaptive optics in DVD players was disclosed for the first time. Contents:Wavefront Correctors and Control:Liquid Crystal Lenses for Correction of Presbyopia (G Li & N Peyghambarian)Woofer-Tweeter Adaptive Optics (T Farrell & C Dainty)Wavefront Sensors:A Fundamental Limit for Wavefront Sensing (C Paterson)Direct Diffractive Image Simulation (A P Maryasov et al.)Adaptive Optics in Vision Science:A Study of Field Aberrations in the Human Eye (A V Goncharov et al.)Characterization of an AO-OCT System (J W Evans et al.)Adaptive Optics in Optical Storage and Microscopy:Commercialization of the Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM) (B Potsaid et al.)Towards Four Dimensional Particle Tracking for Biological Applications (H I Campbell et al.)Adaptive Optics in Lasers:New Results in High Power Lasers Beam Correction (A Kudryashov et al.)Adaptive Optics Control of Solid-State Lasers (W Lubeigt et al.)Adaptive Optics in Communication and Atmospheric Compensation:Fourier Image Sharpness Sensor for Laser Communications (K N Walker & R K Tyson)Adaptive Optics System for a Small Telescope (G Vdovin et al.)and other papers Readership: Industry- and university-level researchers in optics and laser physics. Keywords:Adaptive Optics;Deformable Mirrors;Liquid Crystal Devices;Vision ScienceKey Features:Summarizes the very latest developments in low-cost, non-astronomical adaptive opticsDescribes the state of the art in low-cost wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, liquid crystal devices, and control systemsContains many chapters devoted to applications

The 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Me- cine took place in Munster, ̈ Germany, from October 19 to October 24, 2003. The series of International Workshops on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine beganwiththe?rstworkshopinShatura/Russiain1997,thesecond workshop took place in Durham/England in 1999, and the third workshop was held in Albuquerque/USA in 2001. The workshop series started out as a true grassroots movement and kept an informal spirit throughout all four workshops. Many personal friendships and scienti?c collaborations have been formed at these meetings. This fourth workshop was supposed to be held in Beijing, China. H- ever, the program committee decided in May 2003 to move the workshop to Munster ̈ due the general perception that the SARS (Severe Acute R- piratory Syndrome) cases reported in China could lead to a large epidemic. Despite this rather short notice the workshop in Munster ̈ was attended by about 70 people. Incidentally, the workshop coincided with the 50th anniv- sary of adaptive optics, because it was October 1953 when Horace Babcock published his famous paper “The possibilities of compensating astronomical seeing” in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Paci?c.

This volume contains state-of-the-art research papers on adaptive optics used outside the usual astronomical and military applications. It is the first book to cover this new area of research. One of the main industrial applications is in the control of laser wavefronts, and the book contains papers on both intra- and extra-laser cavity correction. The measurement and control of ocular aberrations is the major medical application, and the topics are discussed by leading researchers in the field. Papers on adaptive optics components specifically for non-astronomical systems are also presented. Other topics include laser communications, microscopy and low-cost systems.

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The Final Proceedings for Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine, 9 June 1997 - 13 June 1997. Topics covered include: adaptive optics, nonlinear optical systems for improving laser beam quality, intracavity and extracavity beam correction, adaptive beam diagnostics.

This proceedings volume presents the very latest developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics. This international workshop, the sixth in a biennial series, was the largest ever held and boasted significant involvement by industry. Adaptive optics is on the verge of being used in many products; indeed, at this meeting, the use of adaptive optics in DVD players was disclosed for the first time.

This volume contains state-of-the-art research papers on adaptive optics used outside the usual astronomical and military applications. It is the first book to cover this new area of research. One of the main industrial applications is in the control of laser wavefronts, and the book contains papers on both intra- and extra-laser cavity correction. The measurement and control of ocular aberrations is the major medical application, and the topics are discussed by leading researchers in the field. Papers on adaptive optics components specifically for non-astronomical systems are also presented. Other topics include laser communications, microscopy and low-cost systems. Contents:Extra-Cavity Adaptive Optics for LasersOphthalmic Adaptive OpticsMicroscopyWavefront CorrectorsIntra-Cavity Adaptive Optics for LasersWavefront SensorsAdaptive Systems Readership: Researchers in optics. Keywords:Adaptive Optics;Cavity;Laser