What is Adaptive Optics?
Adaptive Optics (AO) is a technology that allows the enhancement of the quality of optical systems by acting actively on the wavefront of the optical beam. AO can correct for disturbances created by an optical system itself such as misalignment or non perfect optical elements and for external disturbance such as heat effects, atmospheric effects. AO was first proposed in the 1953 and then developed principally in astronomy for compensating the atmosphere effects, nowadays AO is used in many fields, from industrial machines, to medical equipments.
