Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, ADate:Jun 2008An intra-cavity adaptive mirror is developed for compensation of time-dependent phase aberrations to a laser beam, such as those caused by thermal lensing. The unimorph-type device consists of a metallic disc, with a mirror finish, bonded to ...Read more
Author:Loveday, Philip W; Long, Craig S; Forbes, A; Land, KDate:Mar 2008An intra-cavity adaptive mirror is required to compensate for time-dependent phase aberrations to the laser beam, such as those caused by thermal lensing. A piezoelectric unimorph design can provide a small, low-cost deformable mirror for ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, A; Land, KDate:Jan 2010For intra-cavity laser beam control, a small, low-cost deformable mirror is required. This mirror can be used to correct for time- dependent phase aberrations to the laser beam, such as those caused by thermal expansion of materials. A ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, ADate:Mar 2008This paper describes the development of a deformable mirror to be used in conjunction with diffractive optical elements inside a laser cavity. A prototype piezoelectric unimorph adaptive mirror was developed to correct for time dependent phase ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, ADate:Apr 2012Piezoelectric bimorph- or unimorph-type deformable mirrors are commonly used in adaptive optics to correct for time-dependent phase aberrations. In the optics community, the surface deformations that deformable mirrors are required to achieve, ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip W; Forbes, ADate:Apr 2012Piezoelectric bimorph- or unimorph-type deformable mirrors are commonly used in adaptive optics to correct for time-dependent phase aberrations. In the optics community, the surface deformations that deformable mirrors are required to achieve, ...Read more