Principles of Adaptive Optics (4^th Ed.)

Principles of Adaptive Optics 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 Fourth Edition:

• Contains all-new problem sets at the end of each chapter
• Incorporates cutting-edge research, with hundreds of new citations
• Adds a new section on the practical implications of control algorithms
• Includes a practical roadmap for developing a viable stable multichannel control system
• Presents new practical calibration techniques and new information on phase diversity for wavefront sensing
• Updates coverage of AO systems?e.g., confocal AO scanning ophthalmoscopes and National Ignition Facility (NIF) beam path AO
• Features fresh material on multiconjugate adaptive optics, extra-solar planet detection, optical coherence tomography, pyramid wavefront sensors, micromachined deformable mirrors, and more

Principles of Adaptive Optics, Fourth Edition provides a complete update of the most definitive text for the field.

History and Background
Introduction
History
Physical Optics
Terms in Adaptive Optics
Questions and Problems
References

Sources of Aberrations
Atmospheric Turbulence
Thermal Blooming
Nonatmospheric Sources
Questions and Problems
References

Adaptive Optics Compensation
Phase Conjugation
Limitations of Phase Conjugation
Artificial Guide Stars
Lasers for Guide Stars
Combining the Limitations
Linear Analysis
Partial Phase Conjugation
Questions and Problems
References

Adaptive Optics Applications and Systems
Adaptive Optics Imaging Systems
Beam Propagation Systems
Unconventional Adaptive Optics
System Engineering
Questions and Problems
References

Wavefront Sensing
Directly Measuring Phase
Direct Wavefront Sensing—Modal
Direct Wavefront Sensing—Zonal
Indirect Wavefront Sensing Methods
Wavefront Sampling
Detectors and Noise
Questions and Problems
References

Wavefront Correction
Modal Tilt Correction
Modal Higher-Order Correction
Segmented Mirrors
Deformable Mirrors
Bimorph and Unimorph Corrector Mirrors
Membrane and Micromachined Mirrors
Edge Actuated Mirrors
Large Correcting Optics
Special Correction Devices
Questions and Problems
References

Reconstruction and Controls
Introduction
Single-Channel Linear Control
Multivariate Adaptive Optics Controls
Wavefront Reconstruction
Beyond Linear Control
Practical Implementation of Control Algorithms
Applications to Postprocessing
Questions and Problems
References

Summary of Important Equations
Atmospheric Turbulence Wavefront Expressions
Atmospheric Turbulence Amplitude Expressions
Adaptive Optics Compensation Expressions
Laser Guide Star Expressions

Robert K. Tyson is a professor emeritus of physics and optical science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Penn State and MS and PhD degrees in physics from West Virginia University. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, he worked in the aerospace industry designing optical systems in support of strategic-defense high-energy laser weapons systems. A fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), he is now retired, living in Florida with his wife Peggy and cat Guinevere. He doesn’t play golf, but enjoys pickleball, farkle, and pétanque.