BIMORPH ADAPTIVE MIRRORS AND CURVATURE SENSING

被引:28
作者
SCHWARTZ, C
RIBAK, E
LIPSON, SG
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
来源
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION | 1994年 / 11卷 / 02期
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D O I
10.1364/JOSAA.11.000895
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The applicability of wave-front correction by means of a bimorph mirror in conjunction with a curvature sensor is described. We use Zernike polynomials to describe the quality of the atmospheric-turbulence correction analytically. The match is limited by boundary conditions of the mirror and by the discreteness of the electrodes. The correction is limited by coupling of lower- and higher-order Zernike polynomials and necessitates an interfacing computer between the wave-front sensor and the bimorph mirror.
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页码:895 / 902
页数:8
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