How to Use adaptive optics in a Sentence

adaptive optics

noun

• The emergence of adaptive optics in the late 1990s proved to be the game-changer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• To overcome the issue, the new scope uses a technique from astrophysics called adaptive optics.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
• To achieve their unprecedented views of the universe, both telescopes use adaptive optics.
  — Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2016
• Lick’s Shane telescope wields an adaptive optics system, which fires a beam into the atmosphere.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• To help correct for this, Betzig borrowed a technique from astronomers called adaptive optics.
  — Nick Lunn, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• The Very Large Telescope uses lasers and adaptive optics to correct for turbulence caused by Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 23 Nov. 2020
• The second major breakthrough in telescope technology, which the GMT will use, is adaptive optics.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2018
• The new adaptive optics technology was used to image Neptune, as well as star clusters and other objects.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2018
• At around that time, a new technology, adaptive optics (AO), was being installed on telescopes worldwide.
  — Hilton Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
• Space safety is not the only application that can benefit from adaptive optics.
  — Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
• That work was aided immeasurably by the development of advanced adaptive optics tools to counter the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• Mount Sinai has a precise imaging machine that uses adaptive optics, which can examine individual cells of the retina.
  — Travis M. Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• To diagnose the damage, Dr. Deobhakta and his colleagues used a new technique called adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy that offers an unusually clear and precise view of the retina cells.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
• But to be able to see these fine details, Ghez had to become a pioneering user of adaptive optics, a technology that measures distortions in the atmosphere and then adjusts the telescope in real time to cancel out those fluctuations.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2017
• Traditionally adaptive optics was only viable for large observatories where the cost was justified by big performance gains.
  — Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021

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