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 :
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FINAL EXAM (due 5pm Friday May 22)
Required Text:
General Adaptive Optics links Links to information about Concept Maps
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Reading Assignments (UCSC students may obtain readings that are not in the textbook via eCommons) |
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| Reading 1 | January 10 | Geometrical Optics: Reading1_ReadMe.txt | |||
| Reading 2 | January 15 | Physical Optics: Reading2_ReadMe.txt | |||
| Reading 3 | January 17 | Hardy: Read sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 | |||
| Reading 4 | January 22 | Hardy: Read sections 3.4, 4.4 | |||
| Reading 5 | January 24 | Hardy: Read sections 2.6 through 2.11 (pages 55 through 76) | |||
| Reading 6 | January 29 | Wavefront Sensing: Hardy sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5, 5.7 | |||
| Reading 7 | January 31 | Deformable mirrors: Hardy sections 6.1 - 6.10 plus one article on eCommons. Read Hardy for the physical principles; don't spend too much time on the equations. | |||
| Reading 8 | February 5 | Image motion: Hardy Sections 4.5, 4.6, 9.4.6 plus PDF file on eCommons by Ian McLean | |||
| Reading 9 | February 14 | Two readings on eCommons: laser guide stars | |||
| Reading 10 | February 19 | One reading on eCommons: control theory | |||
| Reading 11 | March 5 | Wavefront Reconstruction: Hardy Sections 8.1 - 8.2 Extreme AO: Astro2010 White Paper, SPHERE talk at Spirit of Lyot 2010 |
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Homework Assignments |
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| Homework 1: Tell me a bit about yourself | January 10 | Word | n/a | |||||
| Homework 2: Optics | January 22 | Word | ||||||
| Homework 2: Problem 6 New Version | January 22 | Word | ||||||
| Homework 3: Optical Effects of Turbulence | February 5 | Word | ||||||
| Project Homework: First draft of performance requirements is due | February 14 | |||||||
| Project Homework: Final draft of performance requirements is due | February 26 | Text File: Questions to prepare for Feb 26 | ||||||
| Homework 4: Class Project Presentations | March 12 | Instructions for class presentations | ||||||
| Project Presentations in class | March 12 | |||||||
| Project Write-Up is due | 5pm Friday May 22nd | Instructions for Project Write-up (Paper) | ||||||
Lectures (NOTE: New dates) 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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January 8 Lecture 1: Introduction to adaptive optics; Overview of course |
Max | PowerPoint | ||||||
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January 10 Lecture 2: Geometrical Optics |
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January 15 Lecture 3: Physical Optics and Fourier Optics |
Max |
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January 17 Lecture 4: Atmospheric Turbulence: Sources, Kolmogorov turbulence |
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January 22 Lecture 5: Optical Propagation through Atmospheric Turbulence |
Movies by Nick Kaiser ___________ |
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January 24 Lecture 6: Error Budget Concepts. Start of class projects. |
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January 29 Lecture 7: Wavefront Sensing |
Lecture ppt | Solar AO movie | ||||||
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January 31 Lecture 8: Deformable Mirrors |
Lecture_PDF | Lecture ppt | ||||||
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February 5 Lecture 9: Image motion, detectors, signal to noise ratio Class Projects: Starters
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February 7 Lecture 10: Project starter continued, Detectors, SNR |
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February 12 Lecture 11: Laser Guide Stars |
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February 14 Lecture 12: Laser Guide Stars part 2 Class projects: Performance requirements first draft due |
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February 19 Lecture 13: AO Control Systems |
Controls Lecture_PDF | Controls Lecture ppt | ||||||
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February 21 Lecture 14: AO Optimization, and How to be a savvy user and consumer of AO |
Lecture_PDF | Lecture ppt | ||||||
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February 26 Class Projects: Focused Investigation |
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February 28 Lecture 15: Other AO applications: vision science, microscopy, solar AO |
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March 5 Lecture 16a: Wavefront Reconstruction Lecture 16b: Extreme Adaptive Optics |
Lisa Poyneer Bruce Macintosh |
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March 7 Lecture 17: LGS tomography, LTAO, MCAO, MOAO, GLAO |
Claire Max | Lecture 17 pdf | Lecture 17 ppt | Movie | ||||
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March 12 Project Presentations - Mini conceptual design review and Project Synthesis. Template will be online here by Wednesday March 8 at noon. |
Instructions for class project presentations | |||||||
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March 14 AO Demonstrator Laboratory activity (class auditors are invited to come to UCSC) |
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March 19 Exam period begins: Take-home Final Exam (short) and write-up of class project are due |
Instructions for write-up of class project | |||||||
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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.
