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Especially significant advances were made by the scientists at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory and MIT/Lincoln Laboratory who carried out the first laser guide star experiments, creating artificial beacons in the sky.
In parallel, astronomers have been working on adaptive optics systems for viewing celestial bodies. The “killer application” of adaptive optics, identified by the astronomical community in the late 1990s, is the direct imaging of extrasolar planets – planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Defined specifically for this purpose extreme adaptive optics is the technology aiming at imaging of objects which are 106 to 109 fainter than their host stars. These systems, when viewed without adaptive optics, are completely swamped by the light of the bright stars.
The most recent application of adaptive optics is in ophthalmology. Only after compensation for ocular aberrations is it possible to view cones and rods in the human retina in vivo. Conversely, in the near future it might be possible to design adaptive contact lenses or glasses giving a person wearing them “supernormal vision”.
Bio
Dr. Szymon Gładysz is (acting) head of the adaptive optics group at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (Fraunhofer IOSB) in Ettlingen. He has graduated from Wrocław University of Technology in Poland, and obtained his PhD from the National University of Ireland in Galway. He has worked in USA, Israel and Germany on theoretical aspects of light propagation through turbulence for astronomical and military applications and is the recipient of awards from University of California and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Information on participating / attending:
Die Veranstaltung ist kostenlos.
Date:
01/31/2013 11:00 - 01/31/2013 12:00
Event venue:
Hector Auditorium
International Department
Schlossplatz 19
76133 Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Information technology, Materials sciences, Physics / astronomy
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
01/25/2013
Sender/author:
Dipl.-Ing. Sibylle Wirth
Department:
Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event42371
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