Abstract

Ophthalmic instrumentation equipped with adaptive optics offers the possibility of rapid and automated correction of the eye’s optics for improving vision and for improving images of the retina. One factor that limits the widespread implementation of adaptive optics is the cost of the wave-front corrector, such as a deformable mirror. In addition, the large apertures of these elements require high pupil magnification, and hence the systems tend to be physically large. We present what are believed to be the first closed-loop results when a compact, low-cost, surface micromachined, microelectromechanical mirror is used in a vision adaptive-optics system. The correction performance of the mirror is shown to be comparable to that of a Xinetics mirror for a 4.6-mm pupil size. Furthermore, for a pupil diameter of 6.0-mm, the residual rms error is reduced from 0.36 to $0.12 \mathit{\mu }\mathrm{m}$ and individual photoreceptors are resolved at a pupil eccentricity of $1^{°}$ from the fovea.

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