**Meet the editor**

Bob Tyson is an Associate Professor of Physics and Optical Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He has a B.S. in physics from Penn State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from West Virginia University. Prior to his faculty appointment he worked for 20 years in the aerospace industry on various strategic and tactical laser weapons

and imaging system designs. He is the author of seven books on adaptive optics including Principles of Adaptive Optics, 3rd edition, CRC Press, published in 2011.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Petersen

**Section 1 Integrated Adaptive Optics Systems 1**

**Resolution Retinal Imaging 3**

Chapter 2 **A Solar Adaptive Optics System 23** Ren Deqing and Zhu Yongtian

Chapter 4 **Liquid Crystal Wavefront Correctors 67**

**Anisoplanatic Imaging 125**

**Section 3 Optical and Atmospheric Effects 145**

Chapter 7 **Adaptive Optics and Optical Vortices 147**

**Section 2 Devices and Techniques 41**

Thomas Ruppel

Chapter 1 **Dual Conjugate Adaptive Optics Prototype for Wide Field High**

Chapter 3 **Devices and Techniques for Sensorless Adaptive Optics 43**

Chapter 5 **Modeling and Control of Deformable Membrane Mirrors 99**

Chapter 6 **Digital Adaptive Optics: Introduction and Application to**

S. G. Garanin, F. A. Starikov and Yu. I. Malakhov

Mathieu Aubailly and Mikhail A. Vorontsov

Zoran Popovic, Jörgen Thaung, Per Knutsson and Mette Owner-

S. Bonora, R.J. Zawadzki, G. Naletto, U. Bortolozzo and S. Residori

Li Xuan, Zhaoliang Cao, Quanquan Mu, Lifa Hu and Zenghui Peng
