标题： 自适应光学暑期学校实验活动 显示英文标题

标题： The Adaptive Optics Summer School Laboratory Activities

摘要： 自适应光学（AO）是一个新兴且迅速扩展的仪器领域，但天文学家、视觉科学家和一般的AO从业者对AO系统至关重要的基础技术大多不熟悉。 AO暑期学校（AOSS），由自适应光学中心资助，是一门为期一周的课程，旨在培训研究生和博士后研究人员掌握AO系统的底层理论、设计和使用方法。 AOSS的参与者包括预期将使用AO数据的天文学家，将使用AO仪器进行研究的视觉科学家，设计AO系统的光学工程师和研究人员，以及使用高带宽激光通信系统的用户。 在本文中，我们描述了2006年至2009年间为近250名学生实施的新AOSS实验室课程。 活动目标包括提高对AO技术的熟悉度，强化对光学对准技术和光学系统设计的知识，并鼓励利用AO系统作为研究工具，探索视觉科学中的关键科学问题。 这些活动分为三个站点：视觉科学、傅里叶光学和AO演示器。 我们简要概述了这些活动，它们在本次会议论文集的其他文章中有详细描述（Putnam等，Do等，Harrington等）。 我们关注在这些活动设计中遇到的独特挑战，包括将类似探究的调查方法与复杂内容相结合，以及需要针对研究生和博士生水平的受众调整深度。 根据2008年进行的前后调查，绝大多数参与者认为所有活动对其职业生涯都有价值，尽管直接体验集成的、功能性的AO系统尤其有益。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Adaptive Optics (AO) is a new and rapidly expanding field of instrumentation, yet astronomers, vision scientists, and general AO practitioners are largely unfamiliar with the root technologies crucial to AO systems. The AO Summer School (AOSS), sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Optics, is a week-long course for training graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the underlying theory, design, and use of AO systems. AOSS participants include astronomers who expect to utilize AO data, vision scientists who will use AO instruments to conduct research, opticians and engineers who design AO systems, and users of high-bandwidth laser communication systems. In this article we describe new AOSS laboratory sessions implemented in 2006-2009 for nearly 250 students. The activity goals include boosting familiarity with AO technologies, reinforcing knowledge of optical alignment techniques and the design of optical systems, and encouraging inquiry into critical scientific questions in vision science using AO systems as a research tool. The activities are divided into three stations: Vision Science, Fourier Optics, and the AO Demonstrator. We briefly overview these activities, which are described fully in other articles in these conference proceedings (Putnam et al., Do et al., and Harrington et al., respectively). We devote attention to the unique challenges encountered in the design of these activities, including the marriage of inquiry-like investigation techniques with complex content and the need to tune depth to a graduate- and PhD-level audience. According to before-after surveys conducted in 2008, the vast majority of participants found that all activities were valuable to their careers, although direct experience with integrated, functional AO systems was particularly beneficial.