Author:Mashaba, Nikiwe P; Griffith, DJDate:Nov 2020Absorption, scattering and refractive index fluctuations are three primary phenomena contributing to optical turbulence. Temperature fluctuations, humidity and air velocity cause variations on both temporal and spatial, in the refractive ...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