Challenges and Future Directions in Adaptive Optics Technology
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2024 | Viewed by 836
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptive optics; wavefront sensing; intelligent control algorithm; deep learning; high-energy beam control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce a call for papers for our upcoming Special Issue “Challenges and Future Directions in Adaptive Optics Technology” in Photonics. This is a platform used to explore the recent developments, current practices, and future trends in adaptive optics and related fields. Adaptive optics systems and components have achieved a level of sophistication and simplicity that goes beyond the traditional applications in astronomy and into multiple developments, including biology, medicine, manufacturing, communications, ophthalmology, vision science, microscopy, high-energy beam control, and so on. These developments introduce many exciting possibilities. One distinctive tool is AI-powered adaptive optics technology. However, with various communities pursuing different applications of AO and its novel methods, this technology will face many challenges from technical and engineering aspects.
The Special Issue “Challenges and Future Directions in Adaptive Optics Technology” invites original research and comments that introduce the recent advances in adaptive optics from computational, experimental, theoretical, and numerical perspectives, including (but not limited to):
- AO systems and component technologies;
- Sensors, measurements, and instrumentation in AO;
- Advanced Wavefront sensing, correction, shaping methods;
- Reconstruction and control algorithms;
- Sensor-less and actuator-less AO;
- Machine learning and AI for AO, and AO for AI;
- The modeling and characterization of AO systems and components;
- Fourier optics, image, and signal processing techniques for AO;
- High-energy beam control and beam propagation and control;
- Imaging through scattering and turbid media;
- Advanced AO in atmospheric, oceanic, and biomedical optics;
- Advanced AO in optical metrology, optical communication, and microscopy;
- Novel applications of AO.
Dr. Ping Yang
Dr. Zeyu Gao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Photonics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- adaptive optics
- wavefront sensing
- wavefront correction
- wavefront shaping
- optical metrology
- optical communication
- machine learning
- atmospheric, oceanic or biomedical optics
