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Boston Micromachines Unveils Major Enhancement to Kilo-DM
Apr 2008
Compact Galaxies In Early Universe Pack a Big Punch
Apr 2008
AOptix Technologies Demonstrates FSO Link For HD Broadcast
Apr 2008
Astrophysicists Observe A Circumstellar Disk With Tell-Tale Signs Of Planet Formation
Mar 2008
International Team Discovers New Solar System
Feb 2008
A Lightweight Disk Around a Lightweight Star May Harbor Earth-like Planet
Feb 2008
Boston University Astronomers Map Full Extent Of Mercury's Comet-Like Tail
Feb 2008
Nova Phenomenon Explained With Interferometer Nulling Mode at Keck Observatory
Jan 2008
Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Introduce Adaptive Optics Toolkit
Jan 2008
CILAS To Design and Prototype Adaptive Mirror For European Extremely Large Telescope
Jan 2008
Second Generation Coronagraphic Imager HiCIAO Commissioned On Subaru Telescope
Dec 2007
VLT's NACO Instrument Reveals a Triple Cosmic Collision
Dec 2007
WHT The ground layer adaptive optics system in use at the William Herschel Telescope.
 © J. Méndez
Subaru Reveals "Frameworks" of Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago
Dec 2007
CILAS Delivers Record 1,377 Actuator Adaptive Mirror To ESO
Dec 2007
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Commits $200 Million Support for Thirty-Meter Telescope
Dec 2007
First Ground-Layer Adaptive-Optics System For General Astronomical Observations
Nov 2007
Boston Micromachines Awarded Grant To Build Device To Prevent Friendly Fire
Nov 2007
Boston Micromachines and Indiana University To Develop AO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
Oct 2007
David Williams Honored For Work In Vision Science
Oct 2007
Methane Drizzle On Saturn's Moon Titan
Oct 2007
Keck Adaptive Optics Takes Sharpest Picture of Pluto System
Oct 2007
Scientists 'Weigh' Tiny Galaxy Halfway Across Universe
Oct 2007
MICADO (MICroscopy with ADaptive Optics) Consortium to Use Adaptive Optics for Deep-Tissue Imaging
Sept 2007
Subaru Telescope Uncovers a Misaligned Jet in a Binary Star System
Sept 2007
Thorlabs and Boston Micromachines Partner to Further Deploy Deformable Mirrors to the Photonics Industry
Sept 2007
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MEMSCAP Optical Technology Helps Protect Human Vision
Sept 2007
Boston Micromachines' Multi-DM Named One of the Year's Most Innovative Products
Sept 2007
AOptix Technologies to Exhibit Adaptive Optics-Based, Stand-Off Iris Recognition System
Sept 2007
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Rings of Uranus The dark side of the rings of Uranus.
 © I. de Pater et al.
Lucky Imaging Plus Adaptive Optics Produce Sharpest Ever Images of the Heavens In Visible Light
Sept 2007
‘One Of The Most Curious Objects In The Sky’ Delights Astronomers Again
Aug 2007
Keck, Hubble Provide Edge-On View Of Uranus' Rings
Aug 2007
Thirty-Meter Telescope Project Receives $15 Million from Moore Foundation
Aug 2007
VLT Interferometer Detects Dusty Puff Around R CrB Variable Star
Aug 2007
Photos of the VLT's Laser Guide Star: "The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser"
Aug 2007
Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star HD 15115
July 2007
Univ. of Central Florida, Holochip Corp. Announce Licensing Agreement for Zoom Lens Patents
July 2007
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Gemini Adaptive Optics Finds Possible Cryovolcanism On Charon
July 2007
Airborne Laser Compensates for Atmospheric Turbulence and Fires Surrogate High-Energy Laser
July 2007
Benchmark Survey Shows that Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets Are Rare
July 2007
LLNL Wins Top Innovation Award For MEMS-Based Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
July 2007
Inexpensive ‘Adaptive Optics’ Achieved By Sandia’s Optical Clamp
July 2007
Back On Track: Integral Field Spectroscopy Brings AB Dor C Back In Line With Theory
June 2007
 
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Thirty Meter Telescope Conceptual Design Review Presentation
June 2006
ESO Extremely Large Telescope Design Study Documentation
Apr 2006
Giant Magellan Telescope Conceptual Design Review Documentation
Feb 2006
Airborne Laser press releases from Boeing
Oct 2006 (latest)
Center for Adaptive Optics Newsletters
Keck Observatory adaptive optics press releases
Feb 2006 (latest)
Gemini Observatory Newsletter
Adaptive Optics Edition
Dec 2006
Deformable Mirrors for the National Ignition Facility
Mar 2004        (video presentation)
>> NIF Wavefront Control System Article
Q & A with Brent Ellerbroek, Group Leader for AO for the Thirty Meter Telescope
Interview by Doug Isbell, Dec 2006 (audio)
 
 Art Poster Print

Some Additional News & Review Articles
Making Stars to See Stars: DoD Adaptive Optics Work Is Declassified
   >>(2nd part of two-file download)
G.P. Collins, Physics Today, Feb. 1992
Sodium Laser Guide Stars:
Prof. L.A. Thompson's account of early laser guide star experiments.

Laird A. Thompson
  Art Poster Print (unframed)
Starfire Adaptive Optics Telescope
Poster Size: 16 x 20 in


 Framed Print
Metal Framed Print
Wood Framed Print
...and lastly, adaptive optics in popular culture...
Big Freakin' Laser Beams in Space
Bucky McMahon, Esquire Magazine, Dec. 2006
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