Adaptive optics news; books; establishment listings. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org Copyright 2010 adaptiveoptics.org en-us webmaster@adaptiveoptics.org (Andrew Zadrozny) 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UT 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UT The goal of the project is to go beyond the physical limitations of current microscopy techniques by developing new technology that will improve the resolution of Optical Coherence Tomography and 2-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0610_1.html 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UT The Boeing Company, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency on Feb. 11 successfully demonstrated the speed, precision and breakthrough potential of directed-energy weapons when the Airborne Laser Testbed engaged and destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0210_3.html 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UT Thorlabs announces the extension of its current line of Adaptive Optics kits to include the AOK2 series of Mini AO kits. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0210_2.html 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UT An atomic physicist will this week outline his ambitious plans to help more than a billion people in developing countries see properly by 2020 with the help of self-adjusting glasses. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0210_1.html 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 UT New observations at the Gemini Observatory provide convincing new evidence that the most massive stars may be born in much the same manner as lightweights like our Sun. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_6.html 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT Andor Technology plc today announced the appointment of ALPAO as their new Value Added Reseller for the Adaptive Optics market. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_7.html 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT Adaptica announces its new sales distributorship with Edmund Optics. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_5.html 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT The iPhot project has received a 940K euro grant from France's National Research Agency (ANR) TecSan program. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_4.html 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own Sun's family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the first direct spectrum of a planet orbiting a distant star. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_3.html 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that it has been selected by NASA for two Phase 1 contracts. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_1.html 6 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT Using adaptive optics to remove atmospheric blurring, Gemini Observatory released an image today showing previously hidden forensic secrets at the ballistic core of the Homunculus Nebula, part of the explosive Eta Carinae star system. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0110_2.html 4 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc. disclosed today the completion of a two-phase flight test program for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1209_4.html 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UT A team of astronomers has captured the first direct image of a young binary star system using the Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics mounted on the Subaru Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1209_5.html 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UT The first observations with the world's newest planet-hunter instrument on the Subaru Telescope, HiCIAO, have revealed a companion to the Sun-like star GJ 758. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1209_2.html 3 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UT A team of astronomers has acquired astounding images of the central part of the star cluster Trumpler 14 using the Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1209_1.html 3 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UT With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1209_3.html 2 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UT A team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as Terzan 5. Never observed anywhere in the bulge before, this peculiar cocktail of stars suggests that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1109_2.html 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 UT Using ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain images as sharp as if taken from space, astronomers have made the first time-lapse movie of a rather unusual shell ejected by a "vampire star". http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1109_1.html 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 UT Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1009_1.html 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 UT Linking the twin, 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory discovered an extended, double-layered dust disk orbiting 51 Ophiuchi. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0909_4.html 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UT ALPAO, the specialist in magnetic deformable mirrors expands its Hi-Speed DM Series with a new cost-effective product. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0909_2.html 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UT Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0909_3.html 2 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UT Vision scientists at the University of Murcia have developed a new binocular adaptive optics visual simulator. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0909_1.html 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 UT The Center for Vision Science at the University of Rochester is using Boston Micromachines' Multi-DM. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0809_5.html 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UT New images released today by ESO delve into the heart of a cosmic cloud, called RCW 38, crowded with budding stars and planetary systems. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0809_3.html 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UT The Boeing Company, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully completed the Airborne Laser's first in-flight test against an instrumented target missile. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0809_4.html 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UT The equatorial region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has recently displayed tantalizing evidence that the parched, dry, ultra-frigid desert can support large-scale storms. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0809_2.html 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UT ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0809_1.html 5 Aug 2009 00:00:00 UT Using different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO's Very Large Telescope, two independent teams of astronomers have obtained the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0709_2.html 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 UT The board of directors of the TMT Observatory Corporation has selected Mauna Kea as the preferred site for the Thirty Meter Telescope. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0709_1.html 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 UT Subaru Observatory's coronagraphic extreme adaptive optics project uses MEMS deformable mirror in direct imaging technique. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0609_4.html 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UT The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0609_3.html 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UT Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have obtained one of the sharpest views ever of the Arches Cluster, an extraordinary dense cluster of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0609_2.html 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UT New deformable mirror controller enables low cost adaptive optics proof-of-concept experiments. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0609_1.html 1 Jun 2009 00:00:00 UT With thousands in attendance, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was officially dedicated today. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0509_2.html 29 May 2009 00:00:00 UT The recently discovered extra-solar planet HR 8799b has been detected in Subaru coronagraphic observations made in 2002. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0509_3.html 21 May 2009 00:00:00 UT Long distance optical airborne links provide bandwidth critical for war fighter communications. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0509_1.html 21 May 2009 00:00:00 UT The Thirty Meter Telescope marked a major milestone on its way to becoming the world's most advanced and capable optical telescope. A key part of the telescope's adaptive optics system was successfully tested and is ready to become actual hardware. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0409_2.html 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UT Bifano recognized by space science and astronomy community for outstanding achievements for adaptive optics in micro-deformable mirrors for astronomical telescopes. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0409_1.html 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of advanced iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth wireless optical communication solutions, today announced the close of a $12.9 million dollar financing round led by Northgate Capital of Danville, CA. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0309_3.html 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UT Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, today announced it has achieved record revenues and an acceleration in profit for the year ending December 31, 2008. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0309_2.html 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc. today announced the commercial product release of InSight™, their highly innovative iris recognition system. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0309_1.html 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 UT A layer of 'dark cells' in the retina that is responsible for maintaining the health of the light-sensing cells in our eyes has been imaged in a living retina for the first time. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0209_2.html 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UT Sponsored by the Dutch National Science Foundation STW a program with 20 PhD students has been approved in November, 2008. Within this program new microscopic instruments, active mirrors for lithography, integrated image processing and active optics and active laser technology will be developed. In this vacancy notice a call for 8 PhD and 3 Postdoc positions is made. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0209_2.html 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UT Observations by the Subaru Telescope show that there is water ice in the gas and dust disk around the young star HD142527 toward the constellation Lupus. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0209_3.html 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UT A team of French and Italian astronomers have devised a new method for measuring the size and shape of asteroids that are too small or too far away for traditional techniques. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0209_1.html 4 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UT The Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, MS (NRLSSC) invites applications for a postdoctoral scientist to conduct research in our cutting- edge optical scattering and imaging program in underwater environments. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0209_1.html 3 Feb 2009 00:00:00 UT Thorlabs, Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corporation today announced that their Adaptive Optics Toolkit is being used around the world for vision science, laser beam shaping, and astronomy research. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0109_2.html 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UT A research associate at the U.S. Air Force Academy's Laser and Optics Research Center is developing a new capability that will allow satellites to be seen and see clearer. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0109_3.html 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UT Thanks to the Very Large Telescope's acute and powerful near-infrared eye, astronomers have uncovered a host of new young, massive and dusty stellar nurseries in nearby galaxy NGC 253. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0109_1.html 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UT A California Institute for Regenerative Medicine funded post-doctoral position is available starting in March, 2009 in the laboratories of Profs. Joel Kubby (EE) and William Sullivan (MCD Bio) at the University of California Santa Cruz. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0109_1.html 6 Jan 2009 00:00:00 UT The adaptive optics research group at the Centre d'optique, photonique et laser (COPL) at Universite Laval in Canada has a PhD position (and scholarship) available. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_1208_1.html 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UT Imagine Optic has delivered a unique high-power laser metrology and adaptive optics system for the Atomic Weapons Establishment's Orion Laser Project. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1208_3.html 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UT In a 16-year long study, using several of ESO's flagship telescopes, a team of German astronomers has produced the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the supermassive black hole lurking at our Galaxy's heart. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1208_2.html 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UT Leading astronomers at ONERA, the University of Florida, the Subaru Telescope and Durham University are using Boston Micromachines' Deformable Mirrors. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1208_1.html 8 Dec 2008 00:00:00 UT Adaptive optics specialist ALPAO will be exhibiting at Photonics West 2009. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1108_4.html 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT A team of French astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered an object located very close to the star Beta Pictoris, and which apparently lies inside its disc. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1108_3.html 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT The Delft Center for Systems and Control announces 5 PhD positions in control of smart optics systems. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_1108_2.html 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1108_2.html 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT Using high-contrast, near-infrared adaptive optics observations with the Keck and Gemini telescopes atop Mauna Kea, astronomers for the first time have taken snapshots of a multi-planet solar system, much like ours, orbiting another star. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1108_1.html 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT The Institute for Astronomy adaptive optics group is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the group in developing advanced AO techniques and components. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_1108_1.html 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UT Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues have provided unique insight into the nature of a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang . http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1008_3.html 8 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UT Based on its recent analysis of the noninvasive biometrics market, Frost & Sullivan presents AOptix Technologies Inc. with the 2008 North American Award for Technology Innovation. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1008_2.html 6 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UT A record two-hour observation of Jupiter using a superior technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_1008_1.html 3 Oct 2008 00:00:00 UT Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a normal star similar to the Sun. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0908_3.html 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UT Astronomers have been able to study planet-forming discs around young Sun-like stars in unsurpassed detail, clearly revealing the motion and distribution of the gas in the inner parts of the disc. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0908_2.html 8 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UT After unveiling the prototype at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Imagine Eyes announces that its mirao 52-e Electromagnetic Deformable Mirror is now commercially available. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0908_1.html 3 Sep 2008 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., under contract to Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, today announced a program to test and evaluate the performance of a long distance combined optical and RF link system. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0808_3.html 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UT CILAS has recently been selected by two new customers, AWE in the UK and LULI in France, to design and manufacture deformable mirrors for high power lasers. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0808_2.html 22 Aug 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 award winning Multi-DM. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0808_1.html 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 UT A University of Arizona-led team of researchers has just published an article about their work with a optical vortex coronagraph, a device they could advance astronomy research. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0608_2.html 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UT Within the Delft Center for Systems and Control, there is a career perspective for an ambitious postdoctoral researcher at the interface of Physics (optics) and control for integrated system optimization. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/Jobs_0608_1.html 9 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UT Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0608_1.html 2 Jun 2008 00:00:00 UT AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions has been selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation to design and build the free space optical terminals for the Optical RF Communications Adjunct project. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0508_4.html 28 May 2008 00:00:00 UT On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope's First Light, ESO is releasing two stunning images of different kinds of nebulae, located towards the Carina constellation. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0508_3.html 27 May 2008 00:00:00 UT Increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than two years ago are still raging, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/News_0508_2.html 22 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