Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group from Nagoya University in Japan has created a deformable mirror that ...

This news release is available in German. Lasers are used in manufacturing to cut materials or weld components together. Laser light is focused to a point using various lenses and mirrors; the smaller ...

Cost is no longer the prohibitive factor holding back the adoption of deformable mirrors. Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Paul Bierden of pioneering US firm Boston Micromachines Corporation about the new ...

Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group from Nagoya University in Japan has created a deformable mirror that ...

Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, today announced that it has been selected by NASA for a Phase 2 contract.

Adaptive optics is a transformative technology that corrects distortions in optical wavefronts in real time, thereby enhancing image clarity in a diverse set of applications ranging from astronomical ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an ...

Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that its Kilo-DM is being used in the Subaru ...

Consisting of a reflective membrane supported by an underlying actuator array, the Mini-DM deformable mirror�with a starting price of just $7,500�is presented as significantly less expensive than ...

Detection of gravitational waves at observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US requires complex high-precision optical equipment, to detect ...

The Hi-Speed DM37 deformable mirror from Alpao (Biviers, France) has a clear aperture of 7.5 mm but a large stroke of more than ±35 μm for astigmatism and focus wavefront correction, nonlinearity ...

Very high power is needed to cut or weld using a laser beam. But this creates its own problem: the beam’s energy deforms the mirrors that are focusing it to a point. When this happens, the beam ...