Reports on exciting new results await those who attend the Imaging and Adaptive Optics session of the 2012 AMOS Conference, led by Charles Matson, AFRL/RDS. New horizons are opening in the field of large affordable adaptive optics components due to the ability to routinely create high-optical-quality surfaces made with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP). Learn about approaches to using CFRP to build deformable mirrors with diameters of up to a meter. You will hear from Michael Hart, University of Arizona, and others about advances being made in other adaptive optics systems, in modeling and simulating 3-D atmospheric turbulence, in imaging geosynchronous satellites using ground-based optical systems, and more!
The Novel Approaches to Electro-Optical SSA Sensing session led by Eric Pearce, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, will present selected outstanding papers by Igor Molotov of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and others, covering a wide area of ground and air-based electro-optical systems applied to challenging Space Surveillance applications. The system concepts range from networks of small traditional astronomical telescopes adapted to the challenges of satellite tracking, a large 3.5 m state-of-the-art telescope designed specifically for deep space search, to SOFIA—the World’s largest airborne observatory. Early results from SOFIA, SST, and a novel TDI camera design will also highlight a diverse and interesting session.
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Please watch for our email announcing details of a special Pre-Conference Session on Tuesday, September 10.