As her parents Anita and Matthew Young watch, Mia Young, 4, of Huntingdon begins working on the new communication device she received on Monday from Variety Children’s Charity at the Appalachia ...

Adaptive optics is a transformative technology that corrects distortions in optical wavefronts in real time, thereby enhancing image clarity in a diverse set of applications ranging from astronomical ...

Researchers in Canada have built the first deformable liquid mirror from a magnetic liquid or “ferrofluid”, which could someday be used to compensate for distortion in the images of telescopes and ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Chilean Andes have witnessed the sharpest images ever captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Thanks to its newly-installed adaptive ...

Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for the 6.5 meter diameter Magellan-Clay telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system replaces the secondary mirror ...

Adaptive Optics (AO) has revolutionized the ability to capture and shape light, driving discoveries in astronomy, defense, and communications. At Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), we design and ...

Consisting of a reflective membrane supported by an underlying actuator array, the Mini-DM deformable mirror�with a starting price of just $7,500�is presented as significantly less expensive than ...

French firm CILAS, which specializes in lasers and photonics technologies for military and astronomy applications, has signed an agreement to make some critical optical components for the Thirty Meter ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 112, No. 768 (February 2000), pp. 264-272 (9 pages) ABSTRACT An adaptive optics system is being built for the 6.5 m Multiple Mirror ...

TNO has been selected to start the design of an essential component for the European Solar Telescope (EST), scheduled for construction in the Canary Islands. The telescope will allow detailed ...

The Hi-Speed DM37 deformable mirror from Alpao (Biviers, France) has a clear aperture of 7.5 mm but a large stroke of more than ±35 μm for astigmatism and focus wavefront correction, nonlinearity ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, as it will appear at night upon completion. As humanity works together to build the newest generation of ground-based optical telescopes, with diameters between 25 and 39 ...