UC Santa Cruz
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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WHEN AND WHERE: LECTURES: UC Santa Cruz |
Neptune with and without AO |
INSTRUCTOR: CLAIRE MAX OFFICE HOURS : (Note: no office hours on September 22nd due to travel - please communicate via email)
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FINAL EXAM: Due by 11:59pm on Thursday December 8th (on paper or via email) Click here to download Word file Clich here to download pdf file
Links to information about Concept Maps
Required Text:
Link to Reading Materials (password protected) and class discussion area at UCSC's e-Commons
Adaptive Optics links
Project Presentations
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Reading Assignments (pdf files will be emailed to students, until e-Commons is set up) |
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| Reading 1 | Tues 9/27 | Reading: README + Geometrical Optics. For reference: Full Technical Guide to Optics. | |||
| Reading 2 | Thurs 9/29 | Reading: Fourier Optics and Diffraction (Distributed via email) | |||
| Reading 3 | Tuesday 10/4 | Reading: Andreas Quirrenbach chapter on Atmospheric Turbulence | |||
| Reading 4 | Thurs 10/13 | Reading: Chanan, Wavefront Sensing (omit sections 2 and 3) | |||
| Reading 5 | Tues 10/18 | See eCommons reading assignment | |||
| Reading 6 | Tues 10/25 | See eCommons reading assignment: McLean chapter 9. Focus on Sections 9.2, 9.3, and 9.9. Read the other sections for useful background info. Plus: this reading on class projects. | |||
| Reading 7 | Thurs 10/27 | Readings: Sodium Layer and Laser Guide Stars | |||
| Reading 8 | Thurs 11/17 | See eCommons reading assignment on Extreme AO. Papers by McBride, Macintosh, Hinkley | |||
Homework Assignments |
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| Homework 1: Tell me a bit about yourself | Tues 9/27 | Homework1.pdf | Homework1.doc | |||||
| Homework 2: Optics | Thurs 10/6 | Homework2 (pdf) | Homework2 (doc) | |||||
| Homework 3 | Thurs 10/13 | Homework3.pdf | Homework3.doc | |||||
| Homework 4 | Thurs 10/20 | Homework4.pdf | ||||||
| Homework 5 | Thurs 10/27 | Homework5.pdf | ||||||
| Homework 6 | Tues 11/15 | Homework6.pdf | ||||||
| Homework 7 | Cancelled | |||||||
| Homework 8 | Thurs 12/1 | Class project presentations (details to follow) | ||||||
Lectures (Order may change, dates to be announced) Note: you are welcome to use slides and figures from these lectures in your own presentations, under the condition that you include the words ''Credit: Claire E. Max, UCSC'' somewhere on your slide
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Thurs September 22nd Lecture 1: Introduction to adaptive optics; Overview of how the course will function
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Max, Claire | Lecture1_2011_v2-web.pdf | Lecture1_2011_v2.ppt | ||||||
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Tuesday September 27th Lecture 2: Geometrical Optics Review
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Max, Claire | Lecture2.pdf | Lecture2.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday September 29th Lecture 3: Fourier Optics
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Max, Claire | Lecture3.pdf | Lecture3.ppt | |
Tuesday October 4th Lecture 4: Atmospheric Turbulence: Sources, Kolmogorov turbulence, Mathematical description of optical effects
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Max, Claire | Lecture4.pdf | Lecture4.ppt | Two examples of atmospheric turbulence profiles, showing layers of turbulence: |
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Thursday October 6th Lecture 5:The Optical Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence
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Max, Claire | Lecture5.pdf | Lecture5.ppt | Movies: speckle patterns for telescope diameters of 1m 2m 8m (credit: Nick Kaiser) | |||||
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Tuesday October 11th Lecture 6: Additional Atmospheric Turbulence Parameters; Introduction to Error Budget Concepts
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Max, Claire | Lecture6.pdf | Lecture6.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday October 13th Lecture 7: Wavefront Sensing
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Max, Claire | Lecture7.pdf | Lecture7.ppt | ||||||
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Tuesday October 18th Lecture 8: Deformable Mirrors
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Max, Claire | Lecture8.pdf | Lecture8.ppt | Curvature AO slides from Richard Ordonez, U Hawaii |
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Thursday October 20th Lecture 9: Intro to Class Projects; AO System Optimization;
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Tuesday October 25th Lecture 10: Signal to Noise Ratio, Intro to Laser Guide Stars
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Max, Claire | Lecture10.pdf | Lecture10.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday October 27th Lecture 11: Laser Guide Stars
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Max, Claire | Lecture11.pdf | Lecture11.ppt | Here is the movie (very large file!) | ||||
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Tuesday November 1st Lecture 12: How to be a savvy user and consumer of adaptive optics
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Max, Claire | Lecture12.pdf | Lecture12.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday November 3rd AO Lab Activity at UCSC
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Tuesday November 8th Lecture 13: Laser Tomography; AO with multiple guide stars: MCAO, MOAO, and GLAO
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Max, Claire | Lecture13.pdf | Lecture13.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday November 10th Lecture 15: Work on Class Projects during Class Time
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Tuesday November 15th Lecture 16: Control Theory for AO
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Max, Claire | Lecture14_v2.pdf | Lecture14_v2.ppt | ||||||
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Thursday November 17th Lecture 17: Extreme AO for Imaging Extrasolar Planets |
Macintosh, Bruce | Lecture15_v2.pdf | |||||||
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Tuesday November 22nd Lecture 18: Wavefront Reconstruction
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Poyneer, Lisa | Lecture 16.pdf | |||||||
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Tuesday November 29th Lecture 19: AO for Vision Science |
Max, Claire | Lecture17.pdf |
This is a very large file due to movies |
Slides about Project assignments and Final Exam | |||||
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Thursday December 1st Lecture 20: Class Project Reports, Synthesis |
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This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
