Field Guide to Adaptive Optics, Second Edition (Spie Field Guide)

This SPIE Field Guide provides a summary of the methods for determining the requirements of an adaptive optics system, the performance of the system, and the requirements for the components of the system. Many of the expressions are in the form of integrals, in which case the authors show the results graphically for a variety of practical values. This second edition has a greatly expanded presentation of adaptive optics control system design and operation. Discussions of control models are accompanied by various recommendations for implementing the algorithms in hardware. Table of Contents Introduction Modeling the Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence Beam Propagation Wavefront Sensors Deformable Mirrors Control and Reconstruction