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A Road Map for the Development of Astronomical Adaptive Optics

Overview Astronomy stands poised for a rapid advance in telescope performance, surpassing by a large margin the formerly fundamental limits set by atmospheric seeing. This paper, which was prepared by an ad hoc but broadly-based team of community experts, presents a road map for the development of the key enabling technology-adaptive optics (AO). The road map summarizes and prioritizes required developments in lasers, deformable mirrors, and rapid-readout detectors; in atmospheric tomography and multi-conjugate AO; and in software to model the performance of the atmosphere and the corresponding response of AO systems. The long term goal is to address the formidable challenges of providing AO systems for next generation 30- to 100-m telescopes.

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Publisher	National Optical Astronomy Observatory	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	67
Format	White Papers
Topics	Astronomy

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