How to Use adaptive optics in a Sentence

adaptive optics

noun
  • The solution’s first step came in the form of adaptive optics.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The instrument then used adaptive optics to sharpen the images of these faint planets around their bright stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Any solution will need ultra-precise tracking systems and adaptive optics to correct beam distortion.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Using laser guide stars and adaptive optics is still very much a young, developing technique only a handful of observatories worldwide have tapped into.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • But clever techniques can work around this limitation, including adaptive optics, which rapidly reshapes a mirror in the telescope to counter the motion of overlying air.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2025
  • D’Orgeville and her colleagues propose applying adaptive optics, a technique widely used in astronomy, to the problem of tracking the smaller pieces of debris, between 1 and 10 cm in size, which can be hard to see.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2021
  • The finding was made using an adaptive optics system called MagAO-X, which dramatically improves the sharpness and resolution of telescope images.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The aim of the telescopes was to provide continuous coverage of the sky from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, using identical telescopes with adaptive optics and the capability to conduct near-infrared wide-field surveys.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • By tracking these particles, adaptive optics technologies mounted on the VLT's primary mirrors are able to correct for the blurring and distorting effect of Earth's atmosphere in real time!
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Astrolight designs and builds free‑space optical communication systems for satellites and ground stations, including the terminals and adaptive optics hardware needed to maintain stable laser links through atmospheric turbulence.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The telescope's adaptive optics system corrects for atmospheric distortions in real time, and optional polarization filters enhance sensitivity to light reflected by dust, making debris disks easier to detect.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Once operational, the ELT will use advanced adaptive optics to correct for atmospheric turbulence, yielding images 15 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025

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