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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adaptive optics" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of astronomy, vision science, and optical engineering to refer to technology that improves image quality by compensating for distortions.
Example: "The telescope employs adaptive optics to enhance the clarity of distant celestial objects."
Alternatives: "dynamic optics" or "responsive optics".
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adaptive optics
noun
An optical system in telescopes that reduces atmospheric distortion by dynamically measuring and correcting wavefront aberrations in real time, often by using a deformable mirror.
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The corneal inlay was generated optically by an adaptive optics system.
But these so-called "adaptive optics" systems have been added after the fact to existing telescopes.
The telescope has an adaptive optics system that compensates for atmospheric distortion.
That is because of the newest addition to the 100-inch telescope, a technology called adaptive optics.
At certain wavelengths, telescopes that use adaptive optics can produce images sharper even than those from space-based telescopes.
They were rigged with computerized "adaptive optics": by compensating for atmospheric turbulence, they allow for sharper images of distant objects.
The telescopes have adaptive optics systems that compensate for atmospheric turbulence that can blur images.
The new big telescopes will be the first telescopes to have adaptive optics built in from the start, Dr. Ellis said.
The adaptive optics computer, responding to the signals, calculates the shape to apply to the deformable mirror to cancel out the atmospheric distortions.
A new technology called adaptive optics, a spinoff of military research, uses computers to compensate for atmospheric distortions and produce sharper images of faint cosmic objects.
The researchers were largely confined to a room in the basement where the light from the telescope emerged after passing through the adaptive optics system.
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