Significant optical engineering advances at the University of Arizona are being made for
design, fabrication, and construction of next generation astronomical telescopes. This …

Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of
adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the …

In our solar system, the densely cloud-covered atmosphere of Venus stands out as an
example of how polarimetry can be used to gain information on cloud composition and …

For diffraction-limited optical systems, an accurate physical optics model is necessary to
properly evaluate instrument performance. Astronomical observatories outfitted with …

Future large aperture telescopes and high contrast imaging systems will often include
segment gaps, structural obscurations, along with outer edges which produce diffraction …

Dichroic filters are used by instrument designers to split a field of view into different optical
paths for simultaneous measurement of different spectral bands. Quantifying the polarization …

In the pursuit of directly imaging exoplanets, the high-contrast imaging community has
developed a multitude of tools to simulate the performance of coronagraphs on segmented …

Several modern astrophysics and exoplanet science imagining problems require minimum
diffraction across the image plane. All large aperture ground and space telescopes today …

Future NASA flagship missions will require the collecting area and resolving power of 6
meter or larger aperture telescopes. Due to limits in fairing size, highly accurate and stable …

To minimize the artifacts in Point Spread Functions (PSFs) of space telescopes such as the 6
major spikes shown in the star image observed by the James Webb Space Telescope …