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The performance of a wide-field adaptive optics system depends on input design parameters. Here we investigate the performance of a multi-conjugate adaptive optics system design for the European Extremely Large Telescope, using an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alastair Basden

Performances of an adaptive optics (AO) system are directly linked with the quality of its alignment. During the instrument calibration, having open loop fast tools with a large capture range are necessary to quickly assess the system…

Astronomical telescopes suffer from a tradeoff between field of view (FoV) and image resolution: increasing the FoV leads to an optical field that is under-sampled by the science camera. This work presents a novel computational imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Robin Swanson , Esther Y. H. Lin , Masen Lamb , Suresh Sivanandam , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos

An optical model for a solar power tower with an open volumetric air receiver (OVAR) was developed in this paper, and the optical performance and characteristics of the OVAR were studied based on the model. Firstly, the detailed…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Yu Qiu , Ming-Jia Li , Ya-Ling He , Ze-Dong Cheng

Large area surveys will dominate the forthcoming decades of astronomy and their success requires characterizing thousands of discoveries through additional observations at higher spatial or spectral resolution, and at complementary cadences…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Christoph Baranec , Reed Riddle , Nicholas M. Law

MAVIS (MCAO-Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) is an instrument proposed for the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF), which is currently in the phase-A conceptual design study. It will be the first instrument performing…

Multi orbit low earth orbit (LEO) satellites communication is envisioned as a key infrastructure to deliver global coverage, enabling future services from space air ground integrated networks.However, the optimized design of LEO which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yingzhuo Sun , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , Zhu Han , Octavia A. Dobre

Conventional multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) technologies have encountered bottlenecks of significantly increasing spectrum efficiencies of wireless communications due to the low degrees of freedom in practical line-of-sight scenarios…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Jun Lan , Liping Liang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

The Southern Robotic Adaptive Optics (SRAO) instrument will bring the proven high-efficiency capabilities of Robo-AO to the Southern-Hemisphere, providing the unique capability to image with high-angular-resolution thousands of targets per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Carl Ziegler , Nicholas M. Law , Andrei Tokovinin

The Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI) is a new instrument designed to combine adaptive optics (AO) and lucky imaging (LI) techniques to deliver high spatial resolution in the visible, 20 mas, from ground-based telescopes. Here we present…

The performance of a wide-field adaptive optics system depends on input design parameters. Here we investigate the performance of a multi-object adaptive optics system design for the European Extremely Large Telescope, using an end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alastair Basden , Tim Morris

HARMONI is a visible and near-infrared integral field spectrograph equipped with two complementary adaptive optics systems, fully integrated within the instrument. A Single Conjugate AO (SCAO) system offers high performance for a limited…

In this paper, achievable information rates (AIR) for fiber optical communications are discussed. It is shown that AIRs such as the mutual information and generalized mutual information are good design metrics for coded optical systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-20 Alex Alvarado , Tobias Fehenberger , Bin Chen , Frans M. J. Willems

The Multiconjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) has successfully demonstrated on sky both Star Oriented (SO) and Layer Oriented (LO) multiconjugate adaptive optics techniques. While SO has been realized using 3 Shack-Hartmann…

In the recent Astro2020 Decadal Report, ''Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s'' Adaptive Optics (AO) was identified as a crucial technology for a variety of reasons. These included an emphasis on high-contrast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Julian Christou , Mark Chun , Richard Dekany , Philip Hinz , Jessica Lu , Jared Males , Peter Wizinowich

This study introduces a novel frequency-based data-driven controller for adaptive optics, using power spectral density for optimization while ensuring stability criteria. It addresses disturbance rejection, command amplitude constraints and…

Adaptive optics laser guide star systems perform atmospheric correction of stellar wavefronts in two parts: stellar tip-tilt and high-spatial-order laser-correction. The requirement of a sufficiently bright guide star in the field-of-view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Ward S. Howard , Nicholas M. Law , Carl A. Ziegler , Christoph Baranec , Reed Riddle

The rotary and movable antenna (ROMA) architecture represents a next-generation multi-antenna technology that enables flexible adjustment of antenna position and array rotation angles of the transceiver. In this letter, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Jiayi Zhang , Wenhui Yi , Bokai Xu , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai

The Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, MAD, successfully demonstrated on sky the MCAO technique both in Layer Oriented and Star Oriented modes. As results of the Guaranteed Time Observations in Layer Oriented mode quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-20 Carmelo Arcidiacono , Matteo Lombini , Alessia Moretti , Roberto Ragazzoni , Jacopo Farinato , Renato Falomo , Marco Gullieuszik , Giampaolo Piotto

A framework for energy-efficient resource allocation in a single-user, amplify-and-forward relay-assisted MIMO system is devised in this paper. Previous results in this area have focused on rate maximization or sum power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Alessio Zappone , Pan Cao , Eduard A. Jorswieck