Microscale adaptive optics: Wave-front control with a μ-mirror array and a VLSI stochastic gradient descent controller

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4243-4253

  Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a   Bifano, Thomas G ^b   Hammer, Jay A ^c   Cohen, Marc ^d   Cauwenberghs, Gert ^d  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMS Optical Incorporated   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEFRONTS;

MICROSCALE ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0000490239     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004243     Document Type: Article

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