Useful Adaptive Optics tutorials

Many useful Adaptive Optics tutorials and material are available on the Web. Here is a quick overview of some of them. They are a good source of information (and not the only ones!), especially for students or for anyone interested in AO in general.

Tutorials on Adaptive Optics:

• www.ctio.noao.edu/~atokovin/tutorial/intro.html
• http://cfao.ucolick.org/ao/
• http://media4.obspm.fr/public/FSU/instrumentation/instrument/oa/INTRODUCTION/index.html [in French only]

More tutorials on AO:

• http://www.demailly.com/~dl/inioa [in French only]
• http://lot.astro.utoronto.ca/ao_new.html
• http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/Instruments/Imaging/AOB/local_tutorial.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
• http://www.davincisworld.com/Light/AOtutorial.htm
• http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~jlotz/aoptics/empaper2.html

Glossary of Adaptive Optics Terms:

• http://sciopsedit.gemini.edu/node/212

Other AO forums:

• http://aortc.ast.cam.ac.uk/ - Real-time control for AO
• https://listes.ujf-grenoble.fr/sympa/info/forumhra - High-angular resolution forum (AO, interferometry, deconvolution...)
• http://www.adaptiveoptics.org/ - General AO news and information
• http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2927755&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr - AO and Optics control group on LinkedIn

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