MEMS membrane mirrors for focus adjustment and aberration correction in endoscopic confocal and OCT imaging instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6467, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dickensheets, David L ^a  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Confocal microscopy; Deformable membrane; MEMS; MOEMS; Optical coherence tomography; Variable focus

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MEMBRANES; MEMS MEMBRANE MIRRORS; MOEMS; VARIABLE FOCUS;

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEMS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

MIRRORS;

EID: 34248513072     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.706699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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