UC Santa Cruz
Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics
WHEN AND WHERE: LECTURES: UC Santa Cruz |
Neptune with and without AO |
INSTRUCTOR: CLAIRE MAX OFFICE HOURS : Either in CfAO Conference Room or in my office, Interdisciplinary Science Bldg 379
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Required Text:
General Adaptive Optics links Links to information about Concept Maps
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Reading Assignments Obtain from Canvas at UCSC of via email from Professor
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Reading 1 | January 9th | "Adaptive Optics for Astronomy" by Richard Davies and Markus Kasper, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2012, 50, pages 305-351. | |||
Reading 2 | January 14th | ||||
Reading 3 | January 23rd | Review Reading 2 carefully | |||
Reading 4 | January 28th | Read Excerpts from Brandt and McLean (see Canvas or pw protected email). Pay special attention to McLean section 9.9 | |||
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Reading 6 | February 20 | Rigaut (MCAO), Hubin (GLAO), Gendron (MOAO) | |||
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Reading 11 |
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Homework Assignments |
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Homework 1: Tell me a bit about yourself | January 14th | Homework1_2020.docx | n/a | |||||
Homework 2: Optics; turbulence parameters | January 30th | Homework2_2020.pdf | Homework2_2020.docx | |||||
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Lectures Version 1 (topics, dates, lectures may change) 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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Lecturer | PDF Files | PPT Files |
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January 9 Lecture 1: Introduction to adaptive optics; Overview of course |
Max | Lecture 1 | Lecture 1 | |||||
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January 14 Lecture 2: Atmospheric Turbulence: Sources, Kolmogorov turbulence
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Lecture 2 | Lecture 2 | Videos and Animated GIFs |
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January 16 Lecture 3: Geometrical Optics |
Hinz | Lecture 3 | ||||||
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January 21 Lecture 4: Physical Optics and Deformable Mirrors |
Hinz | Lecture 4 | |||||
January 23 Lecture 5: Imaging through Turbulence |
Max | Lecture 5 | Lecture 5 | |||||
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January 28 Lecture 6: Signal to Noise Ratio and Detectors |
Max | Lecture 6 | Lecture 6 | |||||
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January 30 Lecture 7: Error Budgets, Class Projects Intro |
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February 4 Lecture 8: Wavefront Sensing |
Max | Lecture 8 - Wavefront Sensing | Lecture 8 - Wavefront Sensing | Solar Granulation from DKIST |
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February 6 Lecture 9:: Laser Guide Stars; Class Project Starters (in class) |
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February 11 Lecture 10: AO Control Systems; Class Projects Focused Investigation (in class) |
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February 13 Lecture 11: Wavefront Reconstruction |
Jensen-Clem | Lecture 11 - Wavefront Reconstruction v2 | Lecture 11 - Wavefront Reconstruction v2 |
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February 18 Lecture 12: Second half of laser lecture; AO Optimization; Class projects: Performance requirements first draft due |
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February 20 Lecture 13: LGS tomography, LTAO, MCAO, MOAO, GLAO Class Projects: Discuss Performance Requirements, Begin AO System Design |
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February 25 Lecture 14: Extreme AO for High Contrast |
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February 27 Lecture 15: How to be a savvy user and consumer of AO |
Max | Lecture 15 Savvy User | Lecture 15 Savvy User | |||||
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March 3 AO Demonstrator Lab |
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March 5 Lecture 16: AO for Vision Science |
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Lecture 16 AO for Vision Science | Lecture 16 AO for Vision Science |
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March 10 Lecture 17: Class Project Presentations in class |
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March 12: Summarizing main points of class; synthesis of class projects | Max | |||||||
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March 16-20 Exam period: there will be a take-home exam. Written project reports will be due at end of exam period. |
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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.