UC Santa Cruz
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Announcements:
Final exam can be found here. It is due by 5pm on Thursday June 10th.
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WHEN AND WHERE: LECTURES: UC Santa Cruz . |
Neptune with and without AO |
INSTRUCTOR: CLAIRE MAX OFFICE HOURS :
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Syllabus click here for pdf click here for html Required Texts:
Class Discussion Area in WebCT To enter website for reading materials, go to WebCT Adaptive Optics links Links to information about Concept Maps
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Reading Assignments |
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| Reading 1 | Tues 4/6 | Chapter 1 of Roggeman | |||
| Reading 2 | Thurs 4/8 | Section 3a of Reader: Fundamental Optics (Melles-Griot) and Section 4 in Reader: Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence (first time through) | |||
| Reading 3 | Tues 4/13 | Section 4 in Reader: Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence | |||
| Reading 4 | Thurs 4/15 | In Reader: read the following sections from Hardy on error sources and error budgets:
Hardy page numbers 72-76, 121-122, 311-322, 328, 336-339, 342-345 |
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| Reading 5 | Tues 4/27 | In Reader: Chapters on Wavefront Sensing by Chanan, and on Deformable Mirrors ("Wavefront compensation devices" by Sechaud | |||
| Reading 6: Detectors and signal to noise ratio | Tues 5/4 | In Reader: Material from Hale Bradt's book "Astronomy Methods" pp. 137-144 and 151-165 (Reader page numbers 197-209). Material from Ian McLean's book "Electronic Imaging in Astronomy, 2nd edition" pp. 315-352 (Reader page numbers 211-230). | |||
| Reading 7: Laser guide stars | Thurs 5/6 | In Reader: Two sections by Edward Kibblewhite, pages 269-300. | |||
| Reading 8: Control Theory | Thursday 5/27 | In Reader: Section on Control Theory. A higher-contrast version of the chapter in the reader is here | |||
Homework Assignments |
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| Homework 1 | Tues April 6th | web page | (not applicable) | |||||
| Homework 2 | Tues April 13th | web page | ||||||
| Homework 3 | Tues April 20th | Microsoft Word | ||||||
| Homework 4 | Tuesday April 27th | Microsoft Word | ||||||
| Homework 5: CLASS PROJECTS | Tuesday May 11 | PPT | ||||||
| June 1st homework instead of the AO Lab | Thursday June 3 | |||||||
Lectures (very tentative order of topics) 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 April 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to adaptive optics; Overview of how the course will function |
Max, Claire | PPT | web page | |||||
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Tues April 6 Lecture 2: Geometrical Optics Review
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Max, Claire | PPT | web page | |||||
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Thurs April 8 Lecture 3: Atmospheric Turbulence: Sources, Kolmogorov turbulence, Mathematical description of optical effects |
Max, Claire | PPT | web page | ||||
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Tues April 13 Lecture 4:The Optical Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence |
Max, Claire | PPT | web page | |||||
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Thurs April 15 Lecture 5: Additional Atmospheric Turbulence Parameters; Introduction to Error Budget Concepts NOTE: PLEASE DOWNLOAD MOVIES SEPARATELY AND PUT IN SAME DIRECTORY AS THE ABOVE PPT FILE Introduction to class projects (AO System Design Inquiry): Choosing a science goal for your AO system |
Max, Claire Morzinski, Katie Norton, Andy Lai, David |
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Tues April 20 Lecture 6: Wavefront Sensing |
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Thurs April 22 Class project work: Starters, AO Performance Requirements |
Morzinski, Katie Norton, Andy Lai, David |
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Tues April 27 Lecture 7: Deformable Mirrors |
Max, Claire | PPT | Web Pages | |||||
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Thurs April 29 AO System Optimization |
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Tues May 4 Lecture 9: Signal to Noise Ratio, Intro to Laser Guide Stars |
Max, Claire | PPT | Web Pages | |||||
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Thurs May 6 Lecture 10: Laser Guide Stars |
Max, Claire | Movie: Gemini N. Laser | ||||||
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Tues May 11 Class Projects: Focused Investigation |
Morzinski, Katie Norton, Andy Lai, David |
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Thurs May 13 Lecture 12: How to be a savvy user and consumer of adaptive optics |
Max, Claire | PPT | Web Pages | |||||
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Tues May 18 Lecture 13: Laser Tomography and AO with multiple guide stars: MCAO, MOAO, and GLAO |
Max, Claire | PPT | Web Pages | |||||
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Thurs May 20 Class Projects: Presentations / Sharing |
Morzinski, Katie Norton, Andy Lai, David |
Rachel and Angie spreadsheet 1 |
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Tues May 25 Part 1: Synthesis of Class Projects and AO Inquiry Part 2: Lecture 14: Introductions to Fourier Optics and Control Theory
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Morzinski, Katie Norton, Andy Lai, David Max, Claire |
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Thurs May 27 Lecture 15: Control Theory for AO
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Gavel, Don | PPT | Web Pages | |||||
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Tues June 1 AO Demonstrator Lab |
Leader: Andy Norton | |||||||
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Thurs June 3 Lecture 16: Applications of AO to vision science and to detecting planets around nearby stars |
Max, Claire Macintosh, Bruce |
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