University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have taken advantage of a recently mounted laser guide star system at UC’s Lick Observatory to obtain sharp, twinkle-free images of the faint dusty ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "United States Adaptive Optics Market, By Component (Wavefront Sensor, Control System and Wavefront Modulator), By Type (Natural Guide Star Adaptive Optics, Laser Guide ...

Space junk is a growing problem. Better fight it with lasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Telescope operators figured out ...

Foreword / Robert Q Fugate -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of acronyms -- 1: Sputnik, reality, and technology -- 2: Early days: the Romans -- 3: Rome and Itek: first adaptive optics systems -- 4: ...

Ground-based telescopes have long contended with atmospheric turbulence that diminishes image clarity, and the advent of adaptive optics combined with laser guide stars has been transformative in ...

Company to continue development of directed energy capability for tactical applications. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 15, 2011 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a contract from the U.S. Department of ...

Sodium laser guide star (LGS) adaptive optics (AO) systems have become highly productive tools for all-sky astronomical observations with large telescopes. However, the performance of these systems is ...

Piezo ceramic actuators combine rapid response with high resolution and high force generation, ideal prerequisites to drive highly-dynamic deformable mirrors. The principle has been used in adaptive ...

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 ...