Wavefront correction with a 37-actuator ferrofluid deformable mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 18190-18199

  Brousseau, Denis ^a   Borra, Ermanno F ^a   Thibault, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ImmerVision   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC COILS; FORMABILITY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

CURRENT CARRYING COILS; RMS ERRORS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

MAGNETIC FLUIDS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MAGNETICS; MICROFLUIDICS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 37549060031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.018190     Document Type: Article

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