Optically addressed deformable mirror for low-light applications

Jed Khoury; Jarrett Vella Jr.

doi:10.1117/1.JMM.14.4.041312

1 October 2015 Optically addressed deformable mirror for low-light applications

Jed Khoury, Jarrett Vella Jr.

Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 14, Issue 4, 041312 (October 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.14.4.041312

Abstract

A microelectromechanical deformable mirror device that is optically addressed and designed to actuate at extremely low-light levels for wavefront error correction is fabricated and theoretically described. The device consists of an optically transparent substrate, a photoconductive detector, a thin-film resistor, and insulating posts that support a mirror. The mirror is suspended over the detector by the insulating posts and is deformed when the detector is illuminated through the substrate. The actuation of the device is theoretically modeled as a capacitor in series with a photoconductor under an external dc bias. Under an external 6.3 V dc bias and when back-illuminated with 501 μW∕cm2 light at 539 nm, a total mirror deformation of 474.3 nm was obtained and substantiated by numerical modeling. This represents the highest actuation sensitivity to date that results in mirror deflection values in hundreds of nanometers.

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Jed Khoury and Jarrett Vella Jr. "Optically addressed deformable mirror for low-light applications," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 14(4), 041312 (1 October 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.14.4.041312

Published: 1 October 2015

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