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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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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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Ultralightweight deformable mirrors [PDF]
Applied Optics, 2013 This paper presents a concept for ultralightweight deformable mirrors, based on a thin substrate of optical surface quality, coated with continuous active layers that provide separate modes of actuation at different length scales. This concept eliminates any kind of stiff backing structure for the mirror surface and exploits microfabrication ...
Patterson, Keith, Pellegrino, Sergio
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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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Photonics, 2023 Atmospheric turbulence causes refractive index fluctuations, which in turn introduce extra distortions to the wavefront of the propagated radiation. It ultimately degrades telescope resolution (in imaging applications) and reduces radiation power density
Ilya Galaktionov +4 more
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Nanolaminate Deformable Mirrors [PDF]
IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMS and Their Applications Conference, 2006., 2006 The paper describes two similar deformable mirrors that will demonstrate the feasibility of nanolaminate-based deformable mirrors over a wide range of size scales. Two complementary technologies: high-spatial-density electrostatic actuators and thin, flexible, lightweight nanolaminate foils are combined.
Papavasiliou, A. P. +6 more
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Active optics: deformable mirrors with a minimum number of actuators [PDF]
Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, 2012 We present two concepts of deformable mirror to compensate for first order optical aberrations. Deformation systems are designed using both elasticity theory and Finite Element Analysis in order to minimize the number of actuators.
Laslandes M., Hugot E., Ferrari M.
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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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Amplitude Zone Plate in Adaptive Optics: Proposal of the Principle
Photonics, 2022 One of the main elements in hardware-based adaptive optics systems is a deformable mirror. There is quite a large number of such mirrors based on different principles and exhibiting varying performance.
Vasily Matkivsky +3 more
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