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Adaptive optics is a new technique to greatly enhance the resolution of an image. Imaging with adaptive optics systems is becoming common at large...


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Figure 1.Schematic of an adaptive optics system. The wavefront sensor deforms the mirror to restore the original wavefront for the science camera. Diagram is not to scale.
Figure 2.Example of image improvement possible with adaptive optics. (a) Faint group of young stars imaged in the infrared by the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope. (b) Same stars imaged with the aid of an adaptive optics system using curvature sensing. Charts above photographs plot image intensity as a function of position.
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