Adaptive optics in China

Adaptive Optical (AO) technology can compensate wave-front error by real-time sensing, controlling, and correcting to improve image and beam quality. The research and development on AO in China began in 1979. In 1980, the first laboratory on AO in China was established in the institute of Optics and Electronics (IOE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The main activities of developing AO systems are conducted in this Institute with collaboration of other institutions. Since then several AO systems have been built in this Laboratory. Table I summarized the characteristics of these systems.