Adaptive compensation of atmospheric effects with a high-resolution micro-machined deformable mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4825, Issue , 2002, Pages 14-23

  Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a   Gowens II, John W ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Free space optical communication; MEMS mirror; Stochastic parallel gradient descent

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCONTROLLERS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEFRONTS;

FAST BEAM STEERING MIRRORS; FREE SPACE LASER COMMUNICATION LINKS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT; WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036995572     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.451972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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