Adaptive laser resonator control with deformable MOEMS mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6113, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wittrock, Ulrich ^a   Welp, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Adaptive optics; Delbrmahle mirrors; High power lasers; Laser resonators; Membrane mirrors; MOEMS mirrors; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; LASER RESONATORS; LENSES; MIRRORS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

DELBRMAHLE MIRRORS; HIGH-POWER LASERS; MEMBRANE MIRRORS; MOEMS MIRRORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33646147817     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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