Deformable mirror using thermal actuators. Route to DIY adaptive optics for hobbyists? Maybe not, but it is an interesting demonstration project!

For astronomers, it’s a magical moment: you’re staring at a monitor, and a blurry image of a cosmological object sharpens up, revealing new details. We call this “closing the loop,” a reference to the ...

Stars in the night sky appear to twinkle because air moving in the atmosphere disrupts starlight before it reaches our eyes. While this phenomenon might make for a great nursery rhyme, it causes major ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.200082 reviews intelligent adaptive optics. Adaptive optics technology can correct the dynamic aberrations of optical system at ...