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Research in adaptive optics represents a new stage in the development of optical systems. Adaptive optics can be used for compensating for phase fluctuations of a light field propagated through the atmosphere and through optical media. The idea of dynamic compensation of phase fluctuations originated in the 1950s [1] as an effort to improve the resolutions of telescopes designed for observing stars through the turbulent atmosphere. However, the technological level required for applying this technique to detection and transmission systems has only recently been achieved with the successful development of fast-acting optical elements — adaptive mirrors [2].
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 106–117, November, 1985.
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Taranenko, V.G. Fast-acting adaptive mirrors and their efficiency at compensating for random phase perturbations. Soviet Physics Journal 28, 938–948 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00891738
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