Adaptive optics news; books; establishment listings. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org Copyright 2008 adaptiveoptics.org en-us webmaster@adaptiveoptics.org (Andrew Zadrozny) 14 May 2008 00:00:00 UT 14 May 2008 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions was awarded TV Technology magazine’s prestigious 2008 Mario Award and S.T.A.R. awards for innovation and superior technology at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0508_1.html 2 May 2008 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, today announced a new high speed, high precision controller for its Kilo-DM. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0408_3.html 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UT Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately think the baby's weight was a misprint. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0408_2.html 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions and television microwave services provider Total RF, today announce recent successful Free Space Optical (FSO) lasercom link transmission tests for a national sports television network in New York and San Jose. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0408_1.html 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UT Astrophysicists have imaged a structure within the disk of material coalescing from the gas and dust cloud surrounding the well-studied star AB Aurigae. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0308_1.html 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UT The Keck Observatory has a vacancy for an AO scientist. The candidate will be a main contributor in the integration, commissioning and science verification of the Keck I LGS AO system and the development of the future Next Generation Adaptive Optics (NGAO) system currently in the early design phase. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0308_2.html 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UT The Laboratoire d'Optique at ESPCI in Paris is looking for a skilled postdoctoral candidate at the interface of Physics (Optics) and biology. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0308_1.html 4 Mar 2008 00:00:00 UT Harnessing Lawrence Livermore's pioneering work in gravitational microlensing, supercomputer modeling and adaptive optics, scientists have found two planets in a solar system much like our very own. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0208_3.html 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 UT A team of Japanese astronomers has resolved a circumstellar disk around the young lightweight star FN Tau. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0208_2.html 8 Feb 2008 00:00:00 UT Boston University astronomers released today new images of Mercury that capture both the source regions of and, for the first time, the extraordinary length of the planet's comet-like tail. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0208_1.html 5 Feb 2008 00:00:00 UT First results from a new scientific instrument at W.M. Keck Observatory are helping scientists understand the physics behind recurrent novae, a type of cataclysmic star system. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0108_3.html 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 UT Thorlabs, Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) today announced the Adaptive Optics (AO) Toolkit, a new kit that makes adaptive optics easy, affordable, and widely available for researchers. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0108_2.html 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 UT The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has recently entrusted CILAS with a design study and prototyping of the adaptive mirror for the 42 m European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0108_1.html 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 UT HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics), a coronagraphic imager with polarization differential imaging and spectral differential imaging capabilities, has been commissioned on the Subaru Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1207_4.html 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 UT Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1207_3.html 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 UT A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained infrared and high-resolution images of galaxies from 11 billion years ago using the adaptive optics system and the infrared camera and spectrograph (IRCS) on the Subaru Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1207_5.html 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 UT CILAS has delivered a deformable mirror with 1,377 piezoelectric actuators to the European Southern Observatory. The mirror will be used in SPHERE, an instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1207_2.html 6 Dec 2007 00:00:00 UT The University of California and the California Institute of Technology have received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1207_1.html 5 Dec 2007 00:00:00 UT The first ground-layer adaptive optics system in the world that will be used for general astronomical observations has been commissioned at the William Herschel Telescope on the island of La Palma. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1107_2.html 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation today announced that it has been selected by the United States Army for a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) award to advance the development of its Secure Communicating Optical Ultra-small Transponder (SCOUT). http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1107_1.html 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 UT The National Eye Institute has selected Boston Micromachines and Indiana University to develop a high resolution retinal imaging system for the aging eye. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1007_5.html 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UT David R. Williams, director of the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science, has won the 2007 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded each year by the Jewish Guild for the Blind. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1007_4.html 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UT Noted for its bizarre hydrocarbon lakes and frozen methane clouds, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, also appears to have widespread drizzles of methane, according to a team of astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1007_2.html 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UT Almost 30 years after the discovery of Pluto's large moon, Charon, a University of Hawaii astronomer has used a ground-based telescope to take an image of the Pluto system that exceeds the sharpness possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1007_3.html 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UT A tiny galaxy, nearly halfway across the universe, the smallest in size and mass known to exist at that distance, has been identified by an international team of scientists led by two from the University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1007_1.html 4 Oct 2007 00:00:00 UT As part of its ongoing commitment to expand the applications of adaptive optics in bioimaging, Imagine Optic will spearhead the MICADO (MICroscopy improved with ADaptive Optics) consortium to develop new technology for detecting and treating neurological disorders. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_6.html 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT A new image of a young (less than a million years old) binary star system called XZ Tauri, taken using the Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics on the Subaru Telescope, reveals for the first time a jet of material streaming away from the pair's primary star. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_7.html 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT Thorlabs, Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) have announced a new partnership, which will allow BMC, a leading provider of advanced MEMS-based mirror products, to bring its deformable mirrors into the photonics research community. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_4.html 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, today announces that its optical technology is being used to protect human vision. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_3.html 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, today announced that the latest version of its Multi-DM has been named one of the most innovative products of 2007. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_5.html 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of advanced biometric iris recognition systems announced that it is entering the fast growing iris recognition biometrics market with its proprietary adaptive optics technology. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_2.html 9 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT The Smart Optics Lab at the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is seeking a post-doctoral research associate in the area of adaptive optics technologies for industrial, defense, and biomedical applications. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0907_1.html 5 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have developed a new camera that produces much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and it does all this from here on Earth. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0907_1.html 4 Sep 2007 00:00:00 UT Edwin Hubble once called IC 10 "one of the most curious objects in the sky," and new observations of the extremely faint, lightweight dwarf galaxy are giving scientists new clues about how populations of stars are born. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0807_5.html 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UT As the rings of Uranus swing edge-on to Earth - a short-lived view we get only once every 42 years - astronomers observing the event are getting an unprecedented, glare-free view of the rings and the fine dust that permeates them. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0807_4.html 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UT The California Institute of Technology and the Regents of the University of California have each received $7.5 million in additional funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0807_3.html 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UT Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers from France and Brazil have detected a huge cloud of dust around an R CrB star. This observation is further evidence for the theory that such stellar puffs are the cause of the repeated extreme dimming of the star. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0807_2.html 3 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UT ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky has taken images of the night sky above Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert home to ESO's Very Large Telescope. The amazing images reveal not only the Milky Way in all its splendour, but also the planet Jupiter and the laser beam used at Yepun, one of the 8.2-m telescopes that make up this extraordinary facility. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0807_1.html 2 Aug 2007 00:00:00 UT The University of Central Florida has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and camera phones, to be manufactured at a dramatically smaller size without compromising clarity. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_6.html 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT Astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study disks of debris around stars have found one that is extremely lopsided. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_7.html 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT Frigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of Pluto's companion Charon and recoating parts of its surface in ice crystals could be making this distant world into the equivalent of an outer solar system ice machine. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_4.html 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT The Boeing Company, along with industry teammates and its government customer, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, successfully completed a key Airborne Laser (ABL) flight test Friday. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_5.html 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT Astronomers who used powerful telescopes in Arizona and Chile in a survey for planets around nearby stars have discovered that extrasolar planets more massive than Jupiter are extremely rare in other outer solar systems. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_3.html 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have garnered five awards for developing cutting-edge technologies with commercial potential, including one for the MEMS-based Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (MAOSLO) retinal imaging instrument. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_2.html 5 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT A simple single-actuator variable focal length deformable mirror has been developed by Sandia National Labs. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0707_1.html 2 Jul 2007 00:00:00 UT A new spectroscopic imaging technique, developed for high contrast observations of cool stellar companions, has yielded an improved temperature for the small stellar companion AB Doradus C. The star's mass and temperature are now back in agreement with theoretical predictions. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0607_2.html 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 UT NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system. Eris is 1.27 times the mass of Pluto. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0607_3.html 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 UT An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope. This system provides assistance for the adaptive optics instruments on the VLT and so allows astronomers to obtain images free from the blurring effect of the atmosphere. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0607_1.html 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of advanced iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, announced today the close of a $15 million dollar financing round led by DAG Ventures. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0507_4.html 29 May 2007 00:00:00 UT SUI (Sensors Unlimited, Inc.), part of Goodrich Corporation, global suppliers of shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging systems based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) technology, introduces two new high frame rate SWIR windowing cameras. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0507_5.html 23 May 2007 00:00:00 UT Astronomers have used powerful adaptive optics technology at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to reveal the precise locations and environments of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of an ongoing collision between two galaxies 300 million light-years away. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0507_3.html 17 May 2007 00:00:00 UT Opening for a postdoctoral position in the Smart Optics Lab at the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) to investigate Adaptive Optics technologies for industrial and biomedical applications. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0507_1.html 8 May 2007 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation today announced that its MEMS-based deformable mirror products have helped realize achievements in multi photon microscopy, an advanced optical technique that increases the imaging depth in living tissue. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0507_1.html 7 May 2007 00:00:00 UT An exploding star first observed last September is the largest and most luminous supernova ever seen, according to University of California, Berkeley astronomers, and may be the first example of a type of massive exploding star rare today but probably common in the very early universe. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0507_2.html 7 May 2007 00:00:00 UT Astronomers using adaptive optics have discovered a strikingly symmetrical bipolar nebula. This new member in the pantheon of exotically beautiful celestial objects has been christened the "Red Square" by Peter Tuthill, leader of the team. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0407_1.html 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 UT A multi-conjugate adaptive optics system has been successfully demonstrated on ESO's Very Large Telescope, the first time that multi-conjugate AO has been demonstrated on-sky. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0307_4.html 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UT Combining precise observations obtained by ESO's Very Large Telescope with those gathered by a network of smaller telescopes, astronomers have described in unprecedented detail the double asteroid Antiope, which is shown to be a pair of rubble-pile chunks of material. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0307_3.html 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UT An image released today by the Gemini Observatory brings into focus a new and remarkably detailed view of supersonic "bullets" of gas and the wakes created as they pierce through clouds of molecular hydrogen in the Orion Nebula. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0307_2.html 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the UCO/Lick Observatory to develop the largest MEMS deformable mirror ever produced. The new MEMS deformable mirror will be used in the study of extra-solar planets in the Gemini Planet Imager. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0307_1.html 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UT Researchers at Cardiff University's School of Optometry and Vision Sciences have used adaptive optics techniques to improve the spatial resolution of optical coherence tomography by a factor of 5 in linear dimension, driving new research into the clinical applications of adaptive optics in retinal imaging for early pathology detection. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0207_1.html 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corp. and Imagine Optic have announced upgraded products for wavefront correction and wavefront sensing, ahead of the Photonics West 2007 conference in San Jose, California, where both are presenting exhibits. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0107_1.html 20 Jan 2007 00:00:00 UT Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO), a global ophthalmic surgical and eye care products company, today announced the acquisition of WaveFront Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of proprietary wavefront diagnostic systems for refractive surgery and medical research. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0107_2.html 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 UT UCLA astronomers can determine, for the first time, orbits of massive young stars located a few light months from the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0106_6.html 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 UT