Control loop analysis for a nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator used in an adaptive optics system

David Charles Dayton; Stephen L. Browne; John D. Gonglewski

doi:10.1117/12.332414

7 December 1998 Control loop analysis for a nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator used in an adaptive optics system

David Charles Dayton, Stephen L. Browne, John D. Gonglewski

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Proceedings Volume 3494, Atmospheric Propagation, Adaptive Systems, and Lidar Techniques for Remote Sensing II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332414
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

We discuss the use of Liquid Crystal Phase Modulators (LCPM) as a repeatable test source for use with adaptive optics systems. LCPMs have the potential to induce controlled, repeatable, dynamic aberrations into optical system at low cost, low complexity, and high flexibility. Since they are programmable, and can be operate as transmissive elements, they can easily be inserted into the optical path of an adaptive optics system and used to generate a disturbance test source. Laboratory experiments with a Meadowlark liquid crystal phase modulator are presented.

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David Charles Dayton, Stephen L. Browne, and John D. Gonglewski "Control loop analysis for a nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator used in an adaptive optics system", Proc. SPIE 3494, Atmospheric Propagation, Adaptive Systems, and Lidar Techniques for Remote Sensing II, (7 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332414

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