A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has tested a new technique capable of rapidly identifying the distortions that light undergoes as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere. The development, carried out by the Laboratorio para la Innovación en Optomecánica (LIOM) within the framework of the CELESTE project, could in the future contribute to the creation of more compact and simpler adaptive optics systems to improve the quality of astronomical observations. The technology combines an optical fibre approximately one centimetre long with artificial intelligence techniques
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