Model-based Control in Adaptive Optics Systems

Adaptive optics (AO), also called as Smart Optics, has received increasing attention in the past decades. The main idea behind AO is to actively sense and compensate the optical aberration in the system such that the image resolution is improved or the light beam is well focused. The applications of AO include ground-based telescopes, scanning...

Spline-based wavefront reconstruction for Shack-Hartmann measurements

In the coming decade, a new generation of extremely large-scale ground-based astronomical telescopes will see first light. It is well known that increasing the size of the telescope aperture is only beneficial if the adaptive optics (AO) system, which compensates for turbulence-induced wavefront aberrations, scales accordingly. For the extreme...