Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Apr 2010
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED PHASE MEASUREMENT METHODS IN OPTICS AND IMAGING. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1236,
Physics
Optics
Optical Elements, Laser Beams, Adaptive Optics, Lenses, Holographic Instruments, Liquid Crystal Devices, Optical Elements, Devices, And Systems, Beam Characteristics: Profile, Intensity, And Power, Spatial Pattern Formation, Remote Sensing, Lidar And Adaptive Systems, Lenses, Prisms And Mirrors, Holographic Optical Elements, Holographic Gratings, Display Devices, Liquid-Crystal Devices
Scientific paper
Adaptive optical elements and systems for imaging or laser beam propagation are used for some time in particular in astronomy, where the image quality is degraded by atmospheric turbulence. In astronomical telescopes a deformable mirror is frequently used to compensate wavefront-errors due to deformations of the large mirror, vibrations as well as turbulence and hence to increase the image quality. In the last few years interesting elements like Spatial Light Modulators, SLM's, such as photorefractive crystals, liquid crystals and micro mirrors and membrane mirrors were introduced. The development of liquid crystals and micro mirrors was driven by data projectors as consumer products. They contain typically a matrix of individually addressable pixels of liquid crystals and flip mirrors respectively or more recently piston mirrors for special applications. Pixel sizes are in the order of a few microns and therefore also appropriate as active diffractive elements in digital holography or miniature masks. Although liquid crystals are mainly optimized for intensity modulation; they can be used for phase modulation. Adaptive optics is a technology for beam shaping and wavefront adaptation. The application of spatial light modulators for wavefront adaptation and correction and defect analysis as well as sensing will be discussed. Dynamic digital holograms are generated with liquid crystal devices (LCD) and used for wavefront correction as well as for beam shaping and phase manipulation, for instance. Furthermore, adaptive optics is very useful to extend the measuring range of wavefront sensors and for the wavefront adaptation in order to measure and compare the shape of high precision aspherical surfaces.
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