Field guide to adaptive optics

Content: Conventional adaptive optics system --
Image spread with atmospheric turbulence --
The principle of phase conjugation --
Point spread function for an astronomical telescope --
Modeling the effect of atmospheric turbulence --
Fried's coherence length --
Astronomical "brightness" --
Isoplanatic angle --
Zernike polynomials --
Atmospheric turbulence models --
Coherence length for various wavelengths and turbulence models --
Variations in commonly used turbulence models --
Wind models --
Kolmogorov model --
Greenwood frequency --
Angle of arrival fluctuations (image motion) --
Modulation transfer function --
Beam propagation --
Laser "brightness" --
The Strehl ratio--laser beam propagation to the far field with wavefront error --
Strehl ratio --
Spot size for a Gaussian beam --
Spot size for a uniform circular aperture --
System performance estimation --
System performance estimation --
Modal and zonal fitting error --
Partial correction --
Temporal error --
Focal anisoplanatism (the "cone effect") --
Laser guide stars --
Scintillation --
Wavefront sensors --
Wavefront sensor requirements --
Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and error --
Lenslet array selection --
Shearing interferometer wavefront sensor and error --
Curvature wavefront sensor and error --
Curvature wavefront sensor error --
Deformable mirrors --
Tilt mirror requirements --
Deformable mirror requirements --
Deformable mirror actuator configurations --
Actuator and wavefront sensor layouts --
Actuators, requirements for zonal or modal control --
Deformable mirror influence function models --
Bimorph and MEMS mirrors --
Segmented deformable mirrors --
Control and reconstruction --
Adaptive optics system control model --
Reconstructor --
Wavefront control --
Influence matrix --
Kalman filtering and wavefront estimation --
Computational latency --
Predictor --
Effect of sampling rate on achievable bandwidth --
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Hartmann sensing software implementation --
Appendix --
Equation summary.