Low Cost Adaptive Optics
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Building a low cost adaptive optics system of moderate performance is not difficult in principle, and in this article one approach adopted by our group is described. Our system is based on a membrane mirror, a Shack-Hartmann sensor and a simple control system. Two breadboard AO systems are described and we speculate on some possible future developments.
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