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Optics

technique of measuring wavefront distortion and correcting it in real time with a deformable or controllable optical element to restore image quality.

In optics, adaptive optics refers to technique of measuring wavefront distortion and correcting it in real time with a deformable or controllable optical element to restore image quality. This meaning comes from Babcock (1953) in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[1]

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References

Babcock, H. W. (1953). The Possibility of Compensating Astronomical Seeing. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 65, 229. https://doi.org/10.1086/126606

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