Adaptive optics with an AOA WaveScope wavefront sensor and an OKOTechnologies membrane mirror

Brooke Gregory; Jeff Smith; Clive Standley; Allan Wirth

doi:10.1117/12.321673

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11 September 1998 Adaptive optics with an AOA WaveScope wavefront sensor and an OKOTechnologies membrane mirror

Brooke Gregory, Jeff Smith, Clive Standley, Allan Wirth

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Proceedings Volume 3353, Adaptive Optical System Technologies; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321673
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 1998, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

Adaptive Optics Associates (AOA) has recently developed a commercial Shack-Hartmann wavefront senor called WaveScope for use in optical testing and adaptive optics. The sensor head and associated wavefront analysis software are a powerful and highly flexible combination. Wavefront data can be manipulated and displayed using Tk/Tcl commands and AOA's own atomic functions. To demonstrate this over the last month we have integrated a deformable mirror manufactured by OKOTechnologies into WaveScope. All the software necessary to control the mirror and perform closed loop adaptive optics was written in the Tk/Tcl scripting language which ships with WaveScope. The result is a low cost integrated adaptive optics system.

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Brooke Gregory, Jeff Smith, Clive Standley, and Allan Wirth "Adaptive optics with an AOA WaveScope wavefront sensor and an OKOTechnologies membrane mirror", Proc. SPIE 3353, Adaptive Optical System Technologies, (11 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321673

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