Abstract

A theoretical model has been developed to simulate the behavior of a new class of optically addressed membrane-based spatial light modulator. Numerical simulations of the single-pixel performance of adaptive-optics servos that use this type of device have also been performed and indicate that excellent high-speed optical wave-front-error reduction can be achieved.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

Single-pixel demonstration of innovative adaptive optics by use of a charge-transfer membrane light modulator

P. V. Mitchell, C. J. Gaeta, T. R. O’Meara, D. M. Pepper, C. M. Schiller, T. N. Horsky, and C. Warde
Opt. Lett. 18(20) 1748-1750 (1993)

First-order performance evaluation of adaptive-optics systems for atmospheric-turbulence compensation in extended-field-of-view astronomical telescopes

Brent L. Ellerbroek
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2) 783-805 (1994)

Optimizing closed-loop adaptive-optics performance with use of multiple control bandwidths

Brent L. Ellerbroek, Charles Van Loan, Nikos P. Pitsianis, and Robert J. Plemmons
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(11) 2871-2886 (1994)

Progress in diffraction-limited imaging at the Multiple Mirror Telescope with adaptive optics

M. Lloyd-Hart, R. Dekany, D. Sandler, D. Wittman, R. Angel, and D. McCarthy
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(2) 846-857 (1994)

Analysis of multiconjugate adaptive optics

Dustin C. Johnston and Byron M. Welsh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(1) 394-408 (1994)