| Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop, Münster, Germany, Oct. 19-24, 2003 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Wittrock, Ulrich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540239782 ISBN-13: 9783540239789 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $313.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: This book treats the development and application of adaptive optics for industry and medicine. The contributions describe recently developed components for adaptive-optics systems such as deformable mirrors, wavefront sensors, and mirror drivers as well as complete adaptive optical systems and their applications in industry and medicine. Applications range from laser-beam forming and adaptive aberration correction for high-power lasers to retinal imaging in ophthalmology. The contributions are based on presentations made at the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics in Industry and Medicine which took place in M]nster, Germany, in October 2003. This highly successful series of workshops on adaptive optics started in 1997 and continues with the 5th workshop in Beijing in 2005. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Optics & Light - Medical - Technology & Engineering | Electronics - General |
| Dewey: 621.369 |
| LCCN: 2004115731 |
| Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.68 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Me- cine took place in Munster, ] Germany, from October 19 to October 24, 2003. The series of International Workshops on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine beganwiththe?rstworkshopinShatura/Russiain1997, thesecond workshop took place in Durham/England in 1999, and the third workshop was held in Albuquerque/USA in 2001. The workshop series started out as a true grassroots movement and kept an informal spirit throughout all four workshops. Many personal friendships and scienti?c collaborations have been formed at these meetings. This fourth workshop was supposed to be held in Beijing, China. H- ever, the program committee decided in May 2003 to move the workshop to Munster ] due the general perception that the SARS (Severe Acute R- piratory Syndrome) cases reported in China could lead to a large epidemic. Despite this rather short notice the workshop in Munster ] was attended by about 70 people. Incidentally, the workshop coincided with the 50th anniv- sary of adaptive optics, because it was October 1953 when Horace Babcock published his famous paper "The possibilities of compensating astronomical seeing" in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Paci?c. |