This proceedings volume presents the very latest developments in non-astronomical adaptive optics. This international workshop, the sixth in a biennial series, was the largest ever held and boasted significant involvement by industry. Adaptive optics is on the verge of being used in many products; indeed, at this meeting, the use of adaptive optics in DVD players was disclosed for the first time.

Contents:

• Wavefront Correctors and Control:
• Liquid Crystal Lenses for Correction of Presbyopia (G Li & N Peyghambarian)
• Woofer–Tweeter Adaptive Optics (T Farrell & C Dainty)
• Wavefront Sensors:
• A Fundamental Limit for Wavefront Sensing (C Paterson)
• Direct Diffractive Image Simulation (A P Maryasov et al.)
• Adaptive Optics in Vision Science:
• A Study of Field Aberrations in the Human Eye (A V Goncharov et al.)
• Characterization of an AO-OCT System (J W Evans et al.)
• Adaptive Optics in Optical Storage and Microscopy:
• Commercialization of the Adaptive Scanning Optical Microscope (ASOM) (B Potsaid et al.)
• Towards Four Dimensional Particle Tracking for Biological Applications (H I Campbell et al.)
• Adaptive Optics in Lasers:
• New Results in High Power Lasers Beam Correction (A Kudryashov et al.)
• Adaptive Optics Control of Solid-State Lasers (W Lubeigt et al.)
• Adaptive Optics in Communication and Atmospheric Compensation:
• Fourier Image Sharpness Sensor for Laser Communications (K N Walker & R K Tyson)
• Adaptive Optics System for a Small Telescope (G Vdovin et al.)
• and other papers