Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO)

OSA Optics & Photonics Congress and Exhibit

Collocated with

Advances in Optical Materials (AIOM)
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science XXV (FiO 2009/LS XXV)
Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication (LM)
Signal Recovery and Synthesis (SRS)

Technical Conference: October 12-14, 2009
Fairmont Hotel
San Jose, California, USA

Submission Deadline: May 26, 2009 (12:00 p.m. noon EDT; 16.00 GMT)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: To Be Announced
Pre-Registration Deadline: To Be Announced

View the Meeting Archives for AO 2007 Highlights

2009 Meeting Chairs

Julian C. Christou, Gemini Observatory, USA
Brent L. Ellerbroek, Thirty Meter Telescope Project, USA

About Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications

This meeting investigates the possible synergies between the methods developed by various communities pursuing different applications. The meeting will include a full spectrum of papers from surveys, results of the most recent research, panel discussions, poster sessions, and time for informal discussion and interaction.

Topics to be Covered

• AO concepts and applications
• Advanced system concepts for atmospheric turbulence compensation, including multi-conjugate, multi-object, ground-layer, and extreme AO
• Innovative applications, including vision science and optical communication
• AO control algorithms
• Optimal and adaptive control
• Computationally efficient algorithms
• Amplitude and phase control
• PSF reconstruction and performance estimation
• Simulation and modeling methods
• Component technologies
• Conventional, MEMS, and large deformable mirrors
• Wavefront sensing optics and detectors
• Signal processing electronics
• Lasers and fiber optics for laser guidestar systems
• AO laboratory and field tests