Development of microelectromechanical deformable mirrors for phase modulation of light

Raji Krishnamoorthy Mali; Thomas G. Bifano; Nelsimar Vandelli; Mark N. Horenstein

doi:10.1117/1.601599

1 February 1997 Development of microelectromechanical deformable mirrors for phase modulation of light

Raji Krishnamoorthy Mali, Thomas G. Bifano, Nelsimar Vandelli, Mark N. Horenstein

Optical Engineering, Vol. 36, Issue 2, (February 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601599

A silicon-based, surface micromachined, deformable mirror device for optical applications requiring phase modulation, including adaptive optics and pattern recognition systems is described. The mirror will be supported on a massively parallel system of electrostatically controlled, interconnected microactuators that can be coordinated to achieve precise actuation and control at a macroscopic level. Several generations of individual actuators as well as parallel arrays of actuators with segmented/continuous mirrors have been designed, fabricated, and tested. Deflection characteristics and pull-in behavior of the actuators have been closely studied. Devices have been characterized with regard to yield, repeatability, and frequency response. An electromechanical model of the system has been simulated numerically using the shooting method, and good correlation with experimental results has been obtained. A twenty-channel parallel control scheme has been developed and implemented on a segmented mirror array.

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Raji Krishnamoorthy Mali, Thomas G. Bifano, Nelsimar Vandelli, and Mark N. Horenstein "Development of microelectromechanical deformable mirrors for phase modulation of light," Optical Engineering 36(2), (1 February 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601599

Published: 1 February 1997

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