Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique that corrects for optical aberrations. It was originally
proposed to correct for the blurring effect of atmospheric turbulence on images in ground …

Optical microscopy is widely used to visualize fine structures. When applied to bioimaging,
its performance is often degraded by sample-induced aberrations. In recent years, adaptive …

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

Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

Context. The direct imaging of potentially habitable exoplanets is one prime science case for
the next generation of high contrast imaging instruments on ground-based, extremely large …

Context. Direct imaging of Earth-like planets is one of the main science cases for the next
generation of extremely large telescopes. This is very challenging due to the star-planet …

Reference star differential imaging (RDI) is a powerful strategy for high-contrast imaging.
Using example observations taken with the vortex coronagraph mode of Keck/NIRC2 in …

Adaptive optics (AO) is critical in astronomy, optical communications and remote sensing to
deal with the rapid blurring caused by the Earth's turbulent atmosphere. But current AO …

The Multi-Core Integral-Field Unit (MCIFU) is a new diffraction-limited near-infrared integral-
field unit for exoplanet atmosphere characterization with extreme adaptive optics (xAO) …

Direct imaging is a powerful exoplanet discovery technique that is complementary to other
techniques and offers great promise in the era of 30 m class telescopes. Space-based transit …