[Baps] Thomas Bifano, "Deformable Mirrors for Wavefront Control" MIT Seminar, Wednesday 10/17 4:00 pm in 33-116

[Kerri Cahoy]

MIT Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

NEW TRENDS IN AEROSPACE Seminar Series

To schedule a time with the speaker, please contact Kerri Cahoy, kcahoy at mit.edu

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"Deformable Mirrors for Wavefront Control"

Thomas Bifano
Director, Boston University Photonics Center
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University


DATE:  Wednesday, October 17
TIME:  4-5pm
PLACE: 33-116


ABSTRACT:
High resolution astronomical telescopes on the ground and in space
rely on precise optical wavefront control to produce sharp images. In
most modern instruments, real-time adaptive optical control of
wavefront using deformable mirrors has become indispensable for
compensating refractive disturbances in the beam path or shape errors
in the optics themselves. I present the results of a decade-long
engineering and science program at Boston University to model, design,
make, and use silicon micro-electro-mechanical deformable mirrors
(MEMS-DMs) in astronomical instruments.


For more info you can go to:
http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/news/trends/index.html

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Kerri Cahoy
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 37-367
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Cell phone: 650 814-8148
Office phone: 617 324-6005
E-mail: kcahoy at mit.edu, kerri.cahoy at gmail.com