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