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
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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.
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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……….
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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
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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,
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How to select the right deformable mirror for you Part 1: Imaging
In this multi-part series, I will be exploring the basic questions that one needs to answer in order to determine
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ARVO 2010: Indications of the maturity of adaptive optics and 3 takeaways
This year at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, there were some notable differences from past years.
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Fly with me: UAV image enhancement
MEMS deformable mirror(MEMS DM) technology UAV applies adaptive opticsis right now at the point where a high-volume application could propel the devices
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BU to BMC
A question that is asked from time to time around here is, “What is your relationship with Boston University? “
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AOSLO: Coming to a vision clinic near you
A major area of research using adaptive optics is retinal imaging. And, with that interest, BMC has been fortunate to participate in the advancement the field
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