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Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop, Münster, Germany, Oct. 19-24, 2003

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  • Current status report on adaptive optics and its applications in industry and medicine
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (SPPHY, volume 102)

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Wavefront Correctors and Mirror Control

    1. The Development and Optimisation of High Bandwidth Bimorph Deformable Mirrors

      • D. Rowe, L. Laycock, M. Griffith, N. Archer
      Pages 9-15
    2. Deformable Mirrors with Thermal Actuators

      • G. Vdovin, M. Loktev
      Pages 17-24
    3. Aberration Compensation Using Nematic Liquid Crystals

      • S. Somalingam, M. Hain, T. Tschudi, J. Knittel, H. Richter
      Pages 35-43
    4. Wireless Control of an LC Adaptive Lens

      • G. Vdovin, M. Loktev, X. Zhang
      Pages 45-51
    5. Summary of Adaptive Optics at Stanford

      • P. Lu, Y.-A. Peter, E. Carr, U. Krishnamoorty, I.-W. Jung, O. Solgaard et al.
      Pages 53-59
    6. Control of a Thermal Deformable Mirror: Correction of a Static Disturbance with Limited Sensor Information

      • M. de Boer, K. Hinnen, M. Verhaegen, R. Fraanje, G. Vdovin, N. Doelman
      Pages 61-71
    7. A Novel Microprocessor-Controlled High-Voltage Driver for Deformable Mirrors

      • H.-M. Heuck, I. Buske, U. Buschmann, H. Krause, U. Wittrock
      Pages 73-81
    8. Interferometer-Based Adaptive Optical System

      • O. Soloviev, G. Vdovin
      Pages 91-99
  3. Wavefront Sensors

    1. Extended Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensor

      • B. Schäfer, K. Mann, M. Dyba
      Pages 103-110
    2. High Resolution Wavefront Sensing

      • J.E. Oti, V.F. Canales, M.P. Cagigal
      Pages 111-118
    3. Distorted Grating Wavefront Sensing in the Midwave Infrared

      • D.M. Cuevas, L.J. Otten, P. Harrison, P. Fournier
      Pages 119-127
    4. Comparative Results from Shack-Hartmann and Distorted Grating Wavefront Sensors in Ophthalmic Applications

      • P. Harrison, G.R.G. Erry, P. Fournier, D.M. Cuevas, L.J. Otten, A. Larichev
      Pages 129-139
    5. Shack-Hartmann Sensors for Industrial Quality Assurance

      • J. Pfund, M. Beyerlein, R. Dorn
      Pages 141-150
    6. Single-Chip Neural Network Modal Wavefront Reconstruction for Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensors

      • T. Nirmaier, G. Pudasaini, C. Alvarez Diez, J. Bille, D.W. de Lima Monteiro
      Pages 151-161
    7. CMOS Technology in Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensing

      • D.W. de Lima Monteiro, T. Nirmaier
      Pages 163-175
    8. Generalised Phase Diversity Wavefront Sensor

      • A.H. Greenaway, H.I. Campbell, S. Restaino
      Pages 177-186

About this book

The 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Me- cine took place in Munster, ¨ Germany, from October 19 to October 24, 2003. The series of International Workshops on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine beganwiththe?rstworkshopinShatura/Russiain1997,thesecond workshop took place in Durham/England in 1999, and the third workshop was held in Albuquerque/USA in 2001. The workshop series started out as a true grassroots movement and kept an informal spirit throughout all four workshops. Many personal friendships and scienti?c collaborations have been formed at these meetings. This fourth workshop was supposed to be held in Beijing, China. H- ever, the program committee decided in May 2003 to move the workshop to Munster ¨ due the general perception that the SARS (Severe Acute R- piratory Syndrome) cases reported in China could lead to a large epidemic. Despite this rather short notice the workshop in Munster ¨ was attended by about 70 people. Incidentally, the workshop coincided with the 50th anniv- sary of adaptive optics, because it was October 1953 when Horace Babcock published his famous paper “The possibilities of compensating astronomical seeing” in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Paci?c.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Applied Physics, Photonics Laboratory, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Steinfurt, Germany

    Ulrich Wittrock

About the editor

Ulrich Wittrock studied physics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, and at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, where he received the Master's degree in physics in 1988. In 1988 he began graduate study at the Technical University of Berlin in the research group of Prof. Weber. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1993. Since 1995 he is professor at the University of Applied Sciences at Muenster in the Department of Applied Physics. In 2002 he spent a sabbatical at Stanford University. Ulrich Wittrock developed several new concepts for solid state lasers. His early and continuing interest is the influence of thermo-optical aberrations on laser resonators. His current research activities include adaptive optics for solid state lasers and advanced diode-pumped solid state lasers.

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