| US 7,576,308 B1 | ||
| Mosaic imager using wave front control | ||
| Mark T. Gruneisen, Tijeras, N. Mex. (US); Matthew B. Garvin, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (US); Raymond C. Dymale, Albuquerque, N. Mex. (US); and James R. Rotge, Albuquerque, N. Mex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 24, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/782,547. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/833970, filed on Jul. 28, 2006. | ||
| Int. Cl. G01J 1/20 (2006.01); G01B 9/02 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 250—201.9 [356/521] | 14 Claims |
| 1. An adaptive optics apparatus for transmitting an object scene, comprising:
the object scene being comprised of a plurality of segments;
wave front control means
for successively steering wave fronts emanating, respectively, from each of the segments onto an imaging objective;
for successively focusing wave fronts emanating, respectively, from each of the segments onto the imaging objective; and
for correcting aberrations in incident wave fronts; and
the imaging objective being for successively focusing incident wave fronts emanating, respectively, from each of the segments
onto an optical sensor after they are respectively transmitted by the wave front control means.
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