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Reflective Optical Chopper Outperforms the Rest

As Boston Micromachines’ newest member, I would first and foremost like to introduce myself. My name is Angelica and I have joined the BMC team as their Marketing and Communications Associate

Improved Two Photon-Imaging Through Laser Pulse Compression with the Linear Array DM

In our last blog post (Fast and Precise Laser Pulse Compression with the Linear Array DM) we discussed research being done in the Cui Lab at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus that used our Linear Array DM for laser pulse compression.

Fast and Precise Laser Pulse Compression with the Linear Array DM

Ultrafast lasers have been extensively used in ground breaking research including two Nobel Prizes. Applications within spectroscopy, photochemistry, laser processing and microscopy are widespread.

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What Do You REALLY Want in a Deformable Mirror?

This past summer, Boston Micromachines Corporation conducted a survey of nearly 300 members of the business and scientific community to find out what features were valued in a deformable mirror for adaptive optics

Wavefront Sensorless Adaptive Optics Now a Reality

Up until recently nearly all adaptive optics (AO) systems used wavefront sensors for correction. But with recent advances, off-the-shelf wavefront sensorless AO is becoming a reality.

SPIE Mirror Tech Days: Highlights and Takeaways

The SPIE Mirror Technology SBIR/STTR Workshop was held in Rochester, NY this year at the end of July……….

Dr. Meng Cui of HHMI Discusses Deep Tissue Microscopy Technique

Our customers are constantly making exciting scientific discoveries and……..

CLEO 2012: Concentrated Interest in Adaptive Optics

This year, the CLEO Conference had its normal interesting character: A variety of users from hardcore laser scientists to focused

Deformable mirrors in space???

Boston Micromachines has been awarded US$ 1.2M in contracts by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) to support space-based astronomy research.

How to select the right deformable mirror for you Part 2: Beam Shaping

In our second installment of this series designed to boil down the questions that need to be answered before selecting the right mirror,