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Wide-Aperture Bimorph Deformable Mirror for Beam Focusing in 4.2 PW Ti:Sa Laser
Applied Sciences, 2022 The bimorph deformable mirror with a diameter of 320 mm, including 127 control electrodes, has been developed and tested. The flatness of the initial mirror surface of about 1 μm (P-V) was achieved by mechanically adjusting the mirror substrate fixed in ...
Vadim Samarkin +7 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) is a technology demonstration CubeSat to test a 140 actuator micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirror in low-Earth orbit.
Ewan S. Douglas +12 more
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State-of-the-Art Technologies in Piezoelectric Deformable Mirror Design
Photonics, 2022 In this work, two advanced technologies were applied for manufacturing a bimorph wavefront corrector: laser ablation, to vaporize conductive silver coating from piezoceramic surface, and parallel-gap resistance microwelding, to provide a reliable ...
Vladimir Toporovsky +5 more
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High pixel number deformable mirror concept utilizing piezoelectric hysteresis for stable shape configurations [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We present the conceptual design and initial development of the Hysteretic Deformable Mirror (HDM). The HDM is a completely new approach to the design and operation of deformable mirrors for wavefront correction in advanced imaging systems. The key technology breakthrough is the application of highly hysteretic piezoelectric material in combination ...
A. Schmerbauch +4 more
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Magnetic Fluid Deformable Mirror with a Two-Layer Layout of Actuators †
Micromachines, 2017 In this paper, a new type of magnetic fluid deformable mirror (MFDM) with a two-layer layout of actuators is proposed to improve the correction performance for full-order aberrations with a high spatial resolution. The shape of the magnetic fluid surface
Zhizheng Wu +5 more
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Operation of a MOEMS Deformable Mirror in Cryo: Challenges and Results
Micromachines, 2017 Micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) Deformable Mirrors (DM) are key components for next generation optical instruments implementing innovative adaptive optics systems, both in existing telescopes and in the future ELTs.
Frederic Zamkotsian +5 more
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Calibration of Deformable Mirrors for Open-Loop Control
Sensors, 2022 Deformable mirrors enable the control of wave fronts for the compensation of aberrations in optical systems and/or for beam scanning. Manufacturers of deformable mirrors typically provide calibration data that encode for the fabrication tolerances among ...
Marcel Leutenegger, Stefan W. Hell
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Opto-Electronic Advances, 2023 Integrating deformable mirrors within the optical train of an adaptive telescope was one of the major innovations in astronomical observation technology, distinguished by its high optical throughput, reduced optical surfaces, and the incorporation of the
Youming Guo +9 more
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Photonics, 2023 In a photoelectric tracking system, a deformable mirror can be used to adjust the transmission path of a light beam to achieve accurate measurement and tracking of the target position.
Bo Li, Dapeng Tian
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Influence functions for a hysteretic deformable mirror with a high-density 2D array of actuators. [PDF]
Applied Optics, 2020 We present modeling and analysis of a hysteretic deformable mirror where the facesheet interacts with a continuous layer of piezoelectric material that can be actuated distributively by a matrix of electrodes through multiplexing.
A. Schmerbauch +4 more
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