Adaptive Optics in Imaging

摘要

Adaptive optics (AO) is having an increasing impact on groundbased astronomy, providing telescopes on Earth with an angular resolution exceeding that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Such systems, however, cost millions of dollars and a different approach is required to the design of AO systems for application in medical imaging, industrial inspection or in consumer products. In this talk I shall review the progress made in astronomical adaptive optics, and then focus on our approach to low cost systems. Finally I shall describe some of the potential non-astronomical applications of adaptive optics.