Experimental Demonstration of Sequential Operation Approach for a Three-Sided Pyramid Wavefront Sensor by Lu Chen, Jianli Wang, Kainan Yao, Xinyue Liu, Xudong Lin, Liang Wang, Minghao Wang

“…The experimental results confirm the feasibility of using a nonmodulated sequential three-sided PWFS in adaptive optics systems.…”
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Rational Structural Design of Polymer Pens for Energy-Efficient Photoactuation by Zhongjie Huang, Le Li, Taishan Yin, Keith A. Brown, YuHuang Wang

“…The results of our research suggest novel applications of photoactive composite films as advanced actuators across diverse fields, including lithography, adaptive optics, and soft robotics.…”
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Current Status and Future Perspectives of Optic Nerve Imaging in Glaucoma by Claudia Lommatzsch, Christian van Oterendorp

“…Emerging novel imaging technologies, such as OCT angiography, polarization-sensitive or visible-light OCT and adaptive optics, offer new biomarkers that have the potential to significantly improve structural glaucoma diagnostics. …”
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Testing substellar models with dynamical mass measurements by Liu M.C., Dupuy T.J., Ireland M.J.

“…We have been using Keck laser guide star adaptive optics to monitor the orbits of ultracool binaries, providing dynamical masses at lower luminosities and temperatures than previously available and enabling strong tests of theoretical models. …”
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Binary star astrometry with milli and sub-milli arcsecond precision by Jankov S., Cvetković Z., Pavlović R.

“…In this paper we review the representative results of techniques which have already allowed the sub-milli arcsecond precision like the optical long baseline interferometry, as well as the precursor techniques such as speckle interferometry, adaptive optics and aperture masking. These techniques provide a step forward from milli to sub-milli arcsecond precision, allowing even short period binaries to be resolved, and often resulting in orbits allowing precisions in stellar dynamical masses better than 1%. …”
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Direct detection of nearby habitable zone planets using slicer based integral field spectrographs and epics on the E-ELT by Salter, G, Thatte, N, Tecza, M, Clarke, F, Kasper, M

“…Coupled with extreme adaptive optics and high performance coronographs, a slicer based integral field spectrograph could achieve contrasts exceeding 109, enabling these super-Earths to be detected in the habitable zone of nearby stars, making it an attractive option for the next generation of instruments being designed for the direct detection of extra solar planets. …”

Microscope-Cockpit: Python-based bespoke microscopy for bio-medical science by Phillips, MA, Susano Pinto, DM, Hall, N, Mateos-Langerak, J, Parton, RM, Titlow, J, Stoychev, DV, Parks, T, Susano Pinto, T, Sedat, JW, Booth, MJ, Davis, I, Dobbie, IM

“…We demonstrate the advantages of the Cockpit platform using several bespoke microscopes, including a simple widefield system and a complex system with adaptive optics and structured illumination. A key strength of Cockpit is its use of Python, which means that any microscope built with Cockpit is ready for future customisation by simply adding new libraries, for example machine learning algorithms to enable automated microscopy decision making while imaging.…”

The nuclear orbital distribution in galaxies as a fossil record of black hole formation from integral-field spectroscopy by Cappellari, M, McDermid, R

“…The introduction of IF spectrographs with adaptive optics on large telescopes opens a new era in the study of BHs by finally allowing this key element to be uncovered. …”

HSIM: a simulation pipeline for the HARMONI integral field spectrograph on the European ELT by Zieleniewski, S, Thatte, N, Kendrew, S, Houghton, R, Swinbank, A, Tecza, M, Clarke, F, Fusco, T

“…Further, we employ a new method of incorporating the strongly wavelength dependent adaptive optics point spread functions. HSIM provides a step beyond traditional exposure time calculators and allows us to both predict the feasibility of a given observing programme with HARMONI, as well as perform instrument design trade-offs. …”

Resolved nuclear kinematics link the formation and growth of nuclear star clusters with the evolution of their early- and late-type hosts by Pinna, F, Neumayer, N, Seth, A, Emsellem, E, Nguyen, DD, Boker, T, Cappellari, M, McDermid, RM, Voggel, K, Walcher, CJ

“…We present parsec-scale kinematics of 11 nearby galactic nuclei, derived from adaptive-optics assisted integral-field spectroscopy at (near-infrared) CO band-head wavelengths. …”

ASSIST development of a test-infrastructure for the VLT AO facility by Stuik, R, Arsenault, R, Deep, A, Delabre, B, Hallibert, P, Jolissaint, L, Hubin, N, Kendrew, S, Madec, P, Paufique, J, Stroebele, S

“…ASSIST - The Adaptive Secondary Setup and Instrument STimulator is a test setup to verify the operation of three elements of the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility, namely the Deformable Secondary Mirror (DSM) and the two AO systems using this DSM, the AO system for the visible light integral field spectrograph MUSE (GALACSI) and the AO system for the IR wide field imager HAWK-I (GRAAL). …”

The Oxford SWIFT spectrograph: First commissioning and on-sky results by Thatte, N, Tecza, M, Clarke, F, Goodsall, T, Fogarty, L, Houghton, R, Salter, G, Scott, N, Davies, R, Bouchez, A, Dekany, R

“…The Oxford SWIFT spectrograph, an I and z band (6500-10500 A) integral field spectrograph, is designed to operate as a facility instrument at the 200 inch Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain, in conjunction with the Palomar laser guide star adaptive optics system PALAO (and its upgrade to PALM3000). …”

Adaptive aberration correction in a confocal microscope. by Booth, M, Neil, M, Juskaitis, R, Wilson, T

“…It is rather unfortunate, therefore, that in practical microscopy, aberration-free confocal imaging is rarely achieved. Adaptive optics systems, which have been used widely to correct aberrations in astronomy, offer a solution here but also present new challenges. …”

Planet Hunters: The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data by Fischer, D, Schwamb, M, Schawinski, K, Lintott, C, Brewer, J, Giguere, M, Lynn, S, Parrish, M, Sartori, T, Simpson, R, Smith, A, Spronck, J, Batalha, N, Rowe, J, Jenkins, J, Bryson, S, Prsa, A, Tenenbaum, P, Crepp, J, Morton, T, Howard, A, Beleu, M, Kaplan, Z, vanNispen, N, Sharzer, C

“…The follow-up effort included analysis of Keck HIRES spectra of the host stars, analysis of pixel centroid offsets in the Kepler data and adaptive optics imaging at Keck using NIRC2. Spectral synthesis modeling coupled with stellar evolutionary models yields a stellar density distribution, which is used to model the transit orbit. …”

Comparison of multiscale imaging methods for brain research by Tröger, J, Hoischen, C, Perner, B, Monajembashi, S, Barbotin, A, Löschberger, A, Eggeling, C, Kessels, MM, Qualmann, B, Hemmerich, P

“…We also analyzed the impact of adaptive optics, a motorized objective correction collar and CUDA graphics card technology on imaging quality and acquisition speed. …”

Planet Hunters: The first two planet candidates identified by the public using the Kepler public archive data by Fischer, D, Schwamb, M, Schawinski, K, Lintott, C, Brewer, J, Giguere, M, Lynn, S, Parrish, M, Sartori, T, Simpson, R, Smith, A, Spronck, J, Batalha, N, Rowe, J, Jenkins, J, Bryson, S, Prsa, A, Tenenbaum, P, Crepp, J, Morton, T, Howard, A, Beleu, M, Kaplan, Z, vanNispen, N, Sharzer, C

“…The follow-up effort included analysis of Keck HIRES spectra of the host stars, analysis of pixel centroid offsets in the Kepler data and adaptive optics imaging at Keck using NIRC2. Spectral synthesis modelling coupled with stellar evolutionary models yields a stellar density distribution, which is used to model the transit orbit. …”

Optical Turbulence Profile in Marine Environment with Artificial Neural Network Model by Cuicui Bi, Chun Qing, Pengfei Wu, Xiaomei Jin, Qing Liu, Xianmei Qian, Wenyue Zhu, Ningquan Weng

“…Optical turbulence strongly affects different types of optoelectronic and adaptive optics systems. Systematic direct measurements of optical turbulence profiles [<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msubsup><mi>C</mi><mi>n</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>h</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>] are lacking for many climates and seasons, particularly in marine environments, because it is impractical and expensive to deploy instrumentation. …”
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Modified Method to Detect the Turbulent Layers in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for the Large Solar Vacuum Telescope by Artem Yurievich Shikhovtsev, Pavel Gavrilovich Kovadlo, Alexander Victorovich Kiselev, Dmitriy Yurievich Kolobov, Vladimir Petrovich Lukin, Ivan Victorovich Russkikh, Maxim Yurievich Shikhovtsev

“…Knowledge of the height profiles of atmospheric turbulence as well as the Fried parameter is critical for wide-field adaptive optics (AO).…”
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Optique adaptative  : correction des effets de la turbulence atmosphérique sur les images astronomiques by Rousset, Gérard, Fusco, Thierry

“…Today, adaptive optics (AO) is installed on all very large astronomical telescopes. …”
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A versatile laser-induced porcine model of outer retinal and choroidal degeneration for preclinical testing by Francesca Barone, Juan Amaral, Irina Bunea, Mitra Farnoodian, Rohan Gupta, Rishabh Gupta, Dara Baker, M. Joseph Phillips, Richard J. Blanch, Arvydas Maminishkis, David M. Gamm, Kapil Bharti

“…Using an adjustable power micropulse laser, we generated varying degrees of RPE, PR, and CC damage and confirmed the damage by longitudinal analysis of clinically relevant outcomes, including analyses by adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography/angiography, along with automated image analysis. …”
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