News tagged with deformable mirror

To better understand the early universe, adaptive optics technique invented

Adaptive optics makes it possible to remove distortions caused by turbulence in the atmosphere when observing the sky. A major innovation in this field has been achieved by a Franco-British team, including ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

New sun images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory

NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) team have achieved "first light" using a deformable mirror in what is called adaptive optics at Big Bear Solar Observatory ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Light, instead of electrodes, could control deformable mirrors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of adaptive optics is advancing in interest as technology makes it possible to use deformable mirrors for a number of applications in optoelectronics. Deformable mirrors usually make use of rigid ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (62) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Novel zoom objective with deformable mirrors

Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an all-reflective ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Shooting at ceramics

Producing thin ceramic components has until now been a laborious and expensive process, as parts often get distorted during manufacture and have to be discarded as waste. Researchers are now able to reshape ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Ten years of Very Large Telescope adaptive optics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago today, NACO became operational: the first adaptive optics system of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Adaptive Optics allows astronomers to remove the stars' twinkling – ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Youngest planet seen as it's forming

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star has been captured by astronomers who combined the power of the 10-meter Keck telescopes with a bit of optical sleight ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale

Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy to see deep into living tissues

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes involved in basic biology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

'Orca ears' inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a microphone that can be used at any depth in the ocean, even under crushing pressure, and is sensitive to a wide range of sounds, from a whisper in a library ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Historic first images of rod photoreceptors in the living human eye

Scientists today reported that the tiny light-sensing cells known as rods have been clearly and directly imaged in the living eye for the first time. Using adaptive optics (AO), the same technology astronomers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The search for planets and stars out of this world

There are a lot of things someone could do in nearly 900 hours.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star

A corrective strategy used by astronomers to sharpen images of celestial bodies can now help scientists see with more depth and clarity into the living brain of a mouse. Eric Betzig, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taking unpleasant surprises out of cosmetic surgery with 3D 'before-and-after' tool

For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons' offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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