Adaptive Optics

Below are pictures I used during a presentation on adaptive optics. This page alone is not designed to serve as a primer for adaptive optics because I offer no explanation of the diagrams. It is here more or less for my own reference. The links below have full primers on adaptive optics.

http://op.ph.ic.ac.uk/ao/adapt.html

http://www.ucolick.org/~cfao/AO/whatisao.html