27/11/2009, 14:00 — 15:00 — Sala P3, Edifício de Matemática, IST
Stefano Bonora, National Council of Research, Laboratory for Ultraviolet and X-ray optical Research, Padova, Italy
Adaptive optics for scientific experiments
Adaptive optics is a technology which allows to manipulate the characteristic of a light beam. The talk will introduce adaptive optics principles and main applications. In many scientific experiments adaptive optics has been successfully used as key components for the generation of few optical cycles laser pulses. The talk will explore some techniques for pulse compression and shaping using both modeling of deformable mirror deformation or genetic algorithms.
