SC21Adaptive optics in practice: from principle to applications
New trainingLevel: Basic/Advanced
Audience:
Technicians, engineers, designers, end users, project managers
Prerequisites:
Some basic knowledge on coherent optical propagation would be preferable
Language of the training: French
Maximum capacity: 12
Price: 1100 € HT -
Duration: 2 days - 14 h
Objectives
- Understand adaptive optics principle and dimensioning
- Know the current applications and undestand their stakes
- Appreciate effective and potential performance in different applicative fields
- Be able to appreciate the relevance of adaptive optics for new applications
Addressed topics
Propagation through turbulence
Wavefront sensing
Servoing
- Control loop, performance criterion
Performance indexes
- MTF, Strehl ratio, flux coupled in a monomodal fiber…
Adaptive optics applications
- High angular resolution in astronomie, eye imaging and surgery, optical links for telecommunications, beam shaping of power lasers
The program
Adaptive optics principle
- Performance limitation due to aberrations
- Real-time correction of aberrations with adaptive optics
- Current applications
Analysis and wavefront correction
- Shack-Hartmann or pyramid wavefront sensors...
- Sensorless approaches
- Deformable mirrors, spatial light modulators (SLM)
- Servoing control
Specification and dimensioning of adaptative optics systems
Issues and applications
- Astronomy, telecommunication
- Eye imaging and surgery
- ...
Methodology and assessment
Courses and exercises
Interactive experimental demonstrations
Practical hands-on on instruments
Pedagogical manager(s):
- Jean-Marc Conan - Senior engineer at Onera
- Caroline Kulcsár - Professor at Institut d'Optique
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