Imaging by Low order Adaptive Optics

Abstract

As the use of optics in industrial and medical applications becomes more widespread the problems of maintaining desired optical properties during transmission through turbulent media has come to the fore. Much work has been done modelling optical transmission through such media [1, 2]. Adaptive optics (AO) is the name given to systems which continually monitor the incoming light and attempt to maintain the beam or image quality. The need for low cost adaptive optics will only grow as new applications develop.