A low-cost compact metric adaptive optics system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6711, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mansell, Justin D ^a   Henderson, Brian ^a   Wiesner, Brennen ^a   Praus, Robert ^a   Coy, Steve ^a  

^a Active Optical Systems LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Compact; Inexpensive; Low cost; Metric adaptive optics; Polymer deformable mirror; SPGD; Stochastic parallel gradient descent; Wavefront sensorless adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; METRIC ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; POLYMER DEFORMABLE MIRROR; POLYMER MEMBRANES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; POLYMERS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 42149152725     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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