Near-infrared Flux Distribution of Sgr A* from 2005–2022: Evidence for an Enhanced Accretion Episode in 2019 by Grant C. Weldon, Tuan Do, Gunther Witzel, Andrea M. Ghez, Abhimat K. Gautam, Eric E. Becklin, Mark R. Morris, Gregory D. Martinez, Shoko Sakai, Jessica R. Lu, Keith Matthews, Matthew W. Hosek Jr., Zoë Haggard

“…We present light curves from 69 observation epochs using the NIRC2 imager at 2.12 μ m with laser-guide star adaptive optics. These observations reveal that the mean luminosity of Sgr A* increased by a factor of ∼3 in 2019, and the 2019 light curves had higher variance than in all time periods we examined. …”
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The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Optimization Techniques for Robust Detections of Protoplanets by Jéa I. Adams Redai, Katherine B. Follette, Jason Wang, Clare Leonard, William Balmer, Laird M. Close, Beck Dacus, Jared R. Males, Katie M. Morzinski, Joseph Palmo, Laurent Pueyo, Elijah Spiro, Helena Treiber, Kimberly Ward-Duong, Alex Watson

“…In this work, we present a new, systematic approach to optimization vetted using data of the high-contrast stellar companion HD 142527 B from the Magellan Adaptive Optics Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS). …”
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Microvascular Structural Alterations in Cancer Patients Treated With Antiangiogenic Drugs by Maria Antonietta Coschignano, Carolina De Ciuceis, Carolina De Ciuceis, Claudia Agabiti-Rosei, Claudia Agabiti-Rosei, Valeria Brami, Claudia Rossini, Giulia Chiarini, Paolo Malerba, Francesca Famà, Deborah Cosentini, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Massimo Salvetti, Massimo Salvetti, Alina Petelca, Sara Capellini, Chiara Arnoldi, Matteo Nardin, Salvatore Grisanti, Damiano Rizzoni, Damiano Rizzoni, Alfredo Berruti, Anna Paini

“…Basal and total capillary density were assessed by capillaroscopy whereas, retinal arteriole morphology was measured by Adaptive Optics. Patients were evaluated before starting the antiangiogenic therapy (T0) and re-evaluated after 3 (T3) and 6 (T6) months after treatment. …”
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Graphene Channel Electron-Multiplying Charge-Coupled Pixel by Munir Ali, Afshan Khaliq, Muhammad Abid Anwar, Jianhang Lv, Muhammad Malik, Tian Feng, Srikrishna Chanakya Bodepudi, Hongwei Guo, Khurram Shehzad, Zongwen Li, Yunfan Dong, Wei Liu, Huan Hu, Yuda Zhao, Bin Yu, Yang Xu

“…The presented technique paves the way for futuristic sinusoidally-driven graphene-silicon-based electron-multiplying CCDs with low-power surveillance and adaptive optics applications.…”
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The retinal mosaic, eye movements and colour vision by Regan, SE

“…</p> <p>Until recently, information about the human cone mosaic could only come from histology, but the introduction of adaptive optics (AO) technology to retinal imaging has revolutionised our ability to investigate living, seeing human retinae at high resolution. …”

JWST Observations of the Enigmatic Y-Dwarf WISE 1828+2650. I. Limits to a Binary Companion by Matthew De Furio, Ben Lew, Charles Beichman, Thomas Roellig, Geoffrey Bryden, David Ciardi, Michael Meyer, Marcia Rieke, Alexandra Greenbaum, Jarron Leisenring, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Marie Ygouf, Loic Albert, Martha Boyer, Daniel Eisenstein, Klaus Hodapp, Scott Horner, Doug Johnstone, Doug Kelly, Karl Misselt, George Rieke, John Stansberry, Erick Young

“…This article describes JWST/NIRCam observations of WISE 1828+2650 in six filters to address the binarity question and to provide new photometry to be used in model fitting. We also report adaptive optics imaging with the Keck I0 m telescope. …”
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The Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS)—Results from a 6 yr Campaign to Image Accreting Protoplanets by Katherine B. Follette, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males, Kimberly Ward-Duong, William O. Balmer, Jéa Adams Redai, Julio Morales, Catherine Sarosi, Beck Dacus, Robert J. De Rosa, Fernando Garcia Toro, Clare Leonard, Bruce Macintosh, Katie M. Morzinski, Wyatt Mullen, Joseph Palmo, Raymond Nzaba Saitoti, Elijah Spiro, Helena Treiber, Kevin Wagner, Jason Wang, David Wang, Alex Watson, Alycia J. Weinberger

“…We report results from the Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS), which collected H α differential imagery of 14 transitional disk host stars with the Magellan Adaptive Optics System. To address the twin challenges of morphological complexity and point-spread function instability, GAPlanetS required novel approaches for frame selection and optimization of the Karhounen–Loéve Image Processing algorithm pyKLIP . …”
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Extending depth range of optical coherence tomography by Li, Jinhan

“…For hardware approaches, such as wavefront modification and adaptive optics, the rise in system complexity is always a problem. …”
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Structural and Functional Changes in Non-Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Retinopathy by Amir Akhavanrezayat, Anadi Khatri, Neil Gregory L. Onghanseng, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Christopher Or, Nripun Sredar, Moataz Razeen, Murat Hasanreisoglu, Jonathan Regenold, Zheng Xian Thng, S. Saeed Mohammadi, Tanya Jain, Negin Yavari, Vahid Bazojoo, Ankur Sudhir Gupta, Azadeh Mobasserian, Cigdem Yasar, Ngoc Trong Tuong Than, Gunay Uludag Kirimli, Irmak Karaca, Yong-Un Shin, Woong-Sun Yoo, Hashem Ghoraba, Diana V. Do, Alfredo Dubra, Quan Dong Nguyen

“…Multiple diagnostic modalities such as wide-angle fundus photography (WAFP), WA fundus autofluorescence (WAFAF), spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), Goldmann visual field (GVF) perimetry, microperimetry (MP), electrophysiologic testing, and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) were reviewed and analyzed. …”
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Separated Twins or Just Siblings? A Multiplanet System around an M Dwarf Including a Cool Sub-Neptune by Mallory Harris, Diana Dragomir, Ismael Mireles, Karen A. Collins, Solène Ulmer-Moll, Steve B. Howell, Keivan G. Stassun, George Zhou, Carl Ziegler, François Bouchy, César Briceño, David Charbonneau, Kevin I. Collins, Gábor Fűűrész, Natalia M. Guerrero, Jon M. Jenkins, Eric L. N. Jensen, Martti H. K. Kristiansen, Nicholas Law, Monika Lendl, Andrew W. Mann, Hugh P. Osborn, Samuel N. Quinn, George R. Ricker, Richard P. Schwarz, Sara Seager, Eric B. Ting, Roland Vanderspek, David Watanabe, Joshua N. Winn

“…Reconnaissance radial velocity measurements (taken with EULER/CORALIE and SMARTS/CHIRON) and high-resolution speckle imaging with adaptive optics (obtained from SOAR/HRCAM and Gemini South/ZORRO) show no evidence of an eclipsing binary or a nearby companion, which, together with the low false-positive probabilities calculated with the statistical validation software TRICERATOPS, establishes the planetary nature of these candidates. …”
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OGLE-2019-BLG-1180Lb: Discovery of a Wide-orbit Jupiter-mass Planet around a Late-type Star by Sun-Ju Chung, Andrzej Udalski, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrew Gould, Leading Authors, Michael D. Albrow, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Cheongho Han, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, The KMTNet collaboration, Radek Poleski, Przemek Mróz, Jan Skowron, Michał K. Szymański, Igor Soszyński, Paweł Pietrukowicz, Szymon Kozłowski, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Marcin Wrona, Mariusz Gromadzki, The OGLE collaboration

“…At that time one can measure the lens flux from adaptive optics imaging of Keck or a next-generation 30 m class telescope. …”
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A Uniform Analysis of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager. I. An Empirical Search for Perturbations from Planetary Companions in Polarized Light Images by Katie A. Crotts, Brenda C. Matthews, Gaspard Duchêne, Thomas M. Esposito, Ruobing Dong, Justin Hom, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Malena Rice, Schuyler G. Wolff, Christine H. Chen, Clarissa R. Do Ó, Paul Kalas, Briley L. Lewis, Alycia J. Weinberger, David J. Wilner, Mark Ammons, Pauline Arriaga, Robert J. De Rosa, John H. Debes, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Eileen C. Gonzales, Dean C. Hines, Sasha Hinkley, A. Meredith Hughes, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Eve J. Lee, Ronald A. López, Bruce Macintosh, Johan Mazoyer, Stanimir Metchev, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Eric L. Nielsen, Jenny Patience, Marshall D. Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, Fredrik T. Rantakyrö, Bin B. Ren, Glenn Schneider, Remi Soummer, Christopher C. Stark

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Adaptive harmonic generation microscopy of mammalian embryos. by Jesacher, A, Thayil, A, Grieve, K, Débarre, D, Watanabe, T, Wilson, T, Srinivas, S, Booth, M

“…Adaptive optics is implemented in a harmonic generation microscope using a wavefront sensorless correction scheme. …”

Smart lighting system with tunable radiation pattern by Cerpentier Jeroen, Rondelez Nick, Slembrouck Nathan, Meuret Youri

“…Such functionality can be achieved with adaptive optical systems, which consist of one or multiple adjustable components, enabling illumination with a variable radiation pattern. …”
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Impact of Pupil Aberrations on Wavefront Manipulation by Nobis Thomas

“…A systematic and quantitative analysis is given of the impact of pupil aberrations on the imaging performance in wavefront manipulation applications using adaptive optical elements. For the practical case of rotationally-symmetric types of wavefront corrections, such as defocus or spherical aberration, analytical expressions of the induced aberrations are derived including their pupil and field dependence. …”
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Rapid Detection of Benzo[a]pyrene in Extra Virgin Olive Oil Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy by Emmanouil Orfanakis, Aggeliki Koumentaki, Aikaterini Zoumi, Aggelos Philippidis, Peter C. Samartzis, Michalis Velegrakis

“…This work aims to detect benzo[a]pyrene residues in EVOO using an easily adaptive optical methodology. This approach, which is based on fluorescence spectroscopy, does not require any sample pretreatment or prior extraction of PAH content from the sample, and is reported for the first time herein. …”
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UV Durable LCOS for Laser Processing by Yasuki Sakurai, Masashi Nishitateno, Masahiro Ito, Kohki Takatoh

“…Liquid-Crystal-On-Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) is widely used as a programmable adaptive optical element in many laser processing applications with various wavelength light sources. …”
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Component-wise testing of laser written integrated coupled mode beam splitters by Guan, J, Menssen, A, Liu, X, Wang, J, Booth, M

“…The method is based on the imaging of an individual IBS with a custom-built multifunctional adaptive optical microscope, combined with the calculation of its beam-splitting ratio through numerical modelling.…”

A Novel Optical Vector Spectral Analysis Technique Employing a Limited-Bandwidth Detector by Madsen CK

“…This technique has application to optical monitoring of intersymbol interference distortions, including chromatic and polarization-mode dispersion effects, and thus can provide vector information for input to the control of adaptive optical filters. A method for generating a test signal spanning the spectrum of a modulated data signal without introducing intersymbol interference is discussed. …”
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Wavefront control in adaptive microscopy using Shack-Hartmann sensors with arbitrarily shaped pupils by Dong, B, Booth, M

“…In adaptive optical microscopy of thick biological tissue, strong scattering and aberrations can change the effective pupil shape by rendering some Shack-Hartmann spots unusable. …”