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- Astronomy with AO
- AO instruments and pathfinders
- Invited
- Extreme is the new normal: lessons from 8-m ExAO for ELT regular AO
- Gemini South MCAO on-sky results
- LBT AO on-sky results
- Palm-3000 on-sky results
- Review of the GMT AO program
- The TMT Adaptive Optics Program
- Toward the Adaptive Optics for the 40 m class European ELT
- Towards MOAO on the ELT: the CANARY program
- Talk
- Advancements in adaptive optics technology: micro deformable mirrors and laser guidestars for the next generation of extremely large telescopes
- Design of the Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics System for the Giant Magellan Telescope
- Direct imaging of habitable planets with ELTs
- EPICS: XAO coronagraphic imaging of exoplanets with the E-ELT
- Getting the most out of mid-IR on the E-ELT with the METIS Adaptive Optics system
- GLAO4ELT: trade study and SAM experience
- HARMONI - the first light integral field spectrograph for the E-ELT
- Integration, tests and laboratory performance of SAXO, the VLT-SPHERE extreme AO system
- Laser Tomographic AO system for an Integral Field Spectrograph on the E-ELT : the ATLAS project
- MOAO design, specificities and performance for EAGLE, the high resolution multi-object spectrograph for the E-ELT
- NFIRAOS — Multiconjugate AO System for TMT
- Novel Adaptive Optics on the Pathway to ELTs: MCAO with LINC-NIRVANA on LBT
- On-sky demonstration of focal plane wavefront sensing and quasi-static speckle suppression
- Pathfinders to ELT AO at W.M. Keck Observatory
- RAVEN, a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics technology and science demonstrator
- The E-ELT Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics module
- Poster
- A phased approach to commissioning MCAO: Status and plans for the Linc-Nirvana Pathfinder
- Active Optics for high contrast imaging: Super smooth off-axis parabolas for ELTs XAO instruments
- CANARY Phase B: the LGS upgrade to the CANARY tomographic MOAO pathfinder
- Ceramic High Performance Material. Lightweighted Mirrors and Stable Structures for Large Adaptive Optics (TBC)
- Dense Aperture Masking study : approaching theoretical contrasts with conventional, narrow-field Adaptive Optics
- Design of the calibration unit for the MOAO demonstrator Raven
- Detailed analysis of the first MOAO results obtained by CANARY at the WHT.
- DRAGON, a flexible, visible-light AO testbed
- Experimental validation of LGS wavefront sensing in presence of low-order modes induced by Sodium profile variations
- First experimental results of the FFREE bench: investigation of Fresnel effects in high contrast imaging.
- High-order AO in the visible, a particular niche for 4m-class telescopes?
- Laboratory demonstrations of LTAO on 30-m telescopes at visible wavelengths: Including multiple natural guide stars
- MOAO test bench in Tohoku University
- Next generation AO system of Subaru Telescope
- Optical Tube Assemblies for the ESO VLT Four Laser Guide Star Facility
- Optimal Natural Guide Star Acquisition for the LINC-NIRVANA MCAO system
- Optomechanical Design of an MOAO Demonstrator
- Predicted sky coverage for the TMT MCAO system NFIRAOS
- Raven Calibration
- Slicer based integral-field spectroscopy at the diffraction limit
- The HIA MCAO laboratory bench
- The Phase A study for the EAGLE instrument on the E-ELT
- The SCAO module of the E-ELT adaptive optics imaging camera MICADO
- The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO project: an XAO4ELT precursor
- Invited
- Wavefront correctors
- Talk
- Advancement of Piezo-Stack DM technology at CILAS: Example of HODM for KIS Gregor Solar Telescope
- Contactless Large Deformable Mirrors: ELT AO corrector technology available now
- MEMS Deformable Mirrors in Astronomical AO
- Preliminary design status of the M4AU based on piezo-stack technology
- Thin Shell Manufacturing for large Wavefront correctors
- Poster
- Talk
- Wave-front sensing
- Talk
- A decadal survey of AO wavefront sensing detector developments in Europe
- A pyramid sensor based AO system for Extremely Large Telescopes
- A sensitivity comparison between the non-linear curvature wavefront sensor and the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor in broadband.
- Experimental validation of the linearized focal-plane technique (LIFT)
- Laboratory results for speckle suppression with a self-coherent camera.
- LGS WFS on ELTs I: Wave Front Sensor Design & Analysis
- LGS WFS on ELTs II: Impact of the sodium layer fluctuations
- OCAM2: world’s fastest and most sensitive camera system for advanced Adaptive Optics wavefront sensing
- Phase correction of segment diffraction for high-contrast imaging
- Post-coronagraphic wave-front sensing dedicated to exoplanet detection
- Pyramids, layers and no laser guide stars!
- SPHERE non-common path aberrations measurement and pre-compensation with optimized phase diversity processes: experimental results
- Tomographic phase diversity for phase retrieval on wide-field AO systems
- Poster
- AOLI: Wavefront curvature sensor algorithms and their performance at low photon numbers
- Mach-Zehnder Wavefront sensing in the context of Extreme Adaptive Optics on Extremely large telescopes
- Phase-Sorting Interferometry for High-Contrast Imaging with the GMT
- Pyramid based locally closed loop wavefront sensor: an optomechanical study.
- Sky coverages on ELTs with a reference area much larger than the compensated one
- The ARGOS wavefront sensor pnCCD camera for an ELT: characteristics, limitations and applications
- The Pyramid WFS with extended reference source
- Tip-tilt wavefront sensing from a coronagraphic image: laboratory demonstration with a four-quadrant phase mask.
- Talk
- Laser guide star systems
- Invited
- Talk
- ARGOS - the Laser Star Adaptive Optics for LBT
- Design and Performance of Raman Fiber Amplifier Based 589-nm Guide Star Lasers for ESO VLT and Their Suitability for Future ELT AO Systems
- Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (GeMS) Laser Guide Star Facility Commissioning Results
- Rayleigh scattering, Fratricide effect and spot elongation: first on-sky results with GeMS
- Real-time measurement of the Na layer profile for tomographic reconstruction: experimental results and its application to the E-ELT case
- The Four-Laser Guide Star Facility (4LGSF) for the ESO VLT Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF)
- Poster
- Atmospheric turbulence and other AO disturbances
- Invited
- Talk
- Poster
- Analysis of Ground Layer Turbulence Profiles at CTIO and Mauna Kea
- Cn2 profilometry from Shack-Hartmann data: model and experiment
- Monitoring of the atmospheric turbulence profiles for thespecification of ELTs adaptive optics systems
- The vibration compensation system for ARGOS
- Vibration characterization and mitigation at the Gemini-South telescope
- AO real-time control
- Invited
- Talk
- A Kaczmarz type iterative reconstructor for Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics
- Efficient control schemes with limited computation complexity for Tomographic AO systems on VLTs and ELTs
- Experimental comparison of Wide Field AO control schemes using the Homer AO bench.
- Identification of system misregistrations during AO-corrected observations
- Latest Ground Layer Adaptive Optics results and advancements in Laser Tomography implementation at the 6.5m MMT telescope
- Performance of MCAO on the E-ELT using the Fractal Iterative Method for fast atmospheric tomography
- Real-time control developments for the CANARY MOAO instrument at Durham
- The Slope-Oriented Hadamard scheme for in-lab or on-sky interaction matrix calibration
- Vibration Suppression Algorithms for NFIRAOS on TMT
- Poster
- AO Real-time Control Systems for the ELT Era
- Disturbance rejection analysis of LQG control for an adaptive optics system
- End-To-End performance test of the LINC-NIRVANA Wavefront-Sensor system.
- ETKF : Optimal Control Law for the Adaptive Optics of the E-ELT
- Global feedforward and glocal feedback control of large deformable mirrors
- LINC-NIRVANA Derotators
- MOAO LQG control for CANARY: theory and first laboratory results
- Optimal woofer tweeter control demonstration
- Real time control zonal algorithm for adaptive optical system
- Real-sky adaptive optics experiments on optimal control of tip-tilt modes
- The effect of the instrument environment on the Altair AO system
- Using artificial neural networks (ANN) for open-loop tomography
- Vibration control of ELTs
- AO modeling and post-processing
- Talk
- Aberrations induced by side-projected laser guide stars in laser tomography adaptive optics systems
- Achieving High Contrasts Through Speckle Rejection With Slicer Based Integral Field Spectrographs
- Analysis of the Improvement in Sky coverage for TMT NFIRAOS
- Laser-Guide Star Point-Spread Function Reconstruction for ELTs
- Myopic exoplanet detection algorithm based on an analytical model of AO-corrected coronagraphic multi-spectral imaging.
- Numerical simulations of an Extreme AO system for an ELT
- Point Spread Function Reconstruction for Laser Guide Star Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics Systems on Extremely Large Telescopes
- Practical experience with AO PSF reconstruction at the Keck and Gemini telescopes
- SPHERE: Confronting in-lab performance with system analysis predictions
- Poster
- An Iterative Model for Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Deformable Mirrors
- Analytical vs. end-to-end numerical modeling of adaptive optics systems: comparison between PAOLA and the Software Package CAOS.
- Handling a highly structured and spatially variable Point Spread Function in AO images
- High-contrast, adaptive-optics simulations for HARMONI
- Integrating AO in a performance budget: towards a global system engineering vision
- PSF reconstruction for NICI, the high-contrast coronagraphic imager of GEMINI observatory
- Quasi-real-time end-to-end simulations of ELT-scale adaptive optics systems on GPUs
- Raven performance modeling
- Refined Adaptive Optics simulation with wide field of view for the ELT.
- Simulations of a SCAO System for an E-ELT telescope using the pyramid wavefront sensor: recent results
- Study of GLAO-corrected PSF evolution for the MUSE Wide Field Mode. Expected performance and requirements for PSF reconstruction
- Talk
