Extreme Adaptive Optics Testbed: Performance and characterization of a 1024-MEMS deformable mirror

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6113, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Evans, Julia W ^a,b   Morzinski, Katie ^c   Severson, Scott ^c   Poyneer, Lisa ^a   Macintosh, Bruce ^a,c   Dillon, Daren ^c   Reza, Layra ^c,d   Gavel, Donald ^c   Palmer, David ^a   Olivier, Scot ^a   Bierden, Paul ^e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^e BOSTON MICROMACHINES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Extreme Adaptive Optics; MEMS

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRROR; EXTREME ADAPTIVE OPTICS; MEMS; PHASE SHIFTING DIFFRACTION INTERFEROMETER; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33646144467     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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