Guest Editorial: Adaptive Optical Components

1 October 1990 Guest Editorial: Adaptive Optical Components

Mark A. Ealey

Abstract

Adaptive optics has recently been thrust onto the international scene by the successes reported by the European Southern Observatory and by the problems associated with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Mark A. Ealey "Guest Editorial: Adaptive Optical Components," Optical Engineering 29(10), (1 October 1990). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.150763

Published: 1 October 1990

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KEYWORDS

Adaptive optics

Deformable mirrors

Actuators

Mirrors

Wavefront sensors

Wavefronts

Optical components

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