JOURNAL ARTICLE

Unimorph Deformable Mirrors: From Technology Development to Applications in Lasers and Space Telescopes

Abstract

First, the technology of piezo-driven unimorph deformable mirrors will be reviewed. Then, two specific embodiments of unimorph deformable mirrors will be presented: One for high-power solid state lasers and one for space telescopes.

Keywords:
Unimorph Deformable mirror Optics Laser Parabolic reflector Space (punctuation) Power (physics) Adaptive optics Physics Optoelectronics Computer science Acoustics Piezoelectricity

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Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Physical Sciences →  Physics and Astronomy →  Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Laser Material Processing Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Computational Mechanics
Solid State Laser Technologies
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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