• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2006

Adaptive optics (AO) has been applied in various fields including astronomy, ophthalmology and high power laser systems. An adaptive optics system for a high power laser is not significantly different from other AO systems in the point of configuration except that high energy absorbed by the deformable mirror distorts the deformable mirror surface and so degrades system performance. Currently we are researching a bimorph deformable mirror for beam cleaning of a high power class laser. The bimorph mirror was considered to have 99% reflective coating and 1% absorption. So this paper first presents the temperature profiles and corresponding thermal distortions of the bimorph mirror faceplate when the mirror is under a high power lasing for 10 seconds. The analysis was accomplished by the use of finite difference and finite element computer programs to generate the element arrays, calculate the temperature profiles, and determine the structural deformations. Then this paper proposes an 'embedded wafer' type water-cooling system with derived cooling parameters.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2001년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.270-271
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• 2001

• 천문학회보
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.132.2-132.2
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• 2011

We are developing Adaptive Optics (AO) system for astronomical use. The He-Ne laser works as an artificial light source. The tip-tilt correction servo is added to our AO system. The tip-tilt term, among the Zernike terms, is the biggest contributor of wavefront deformation caused by atmospheric turbulence at small telescopes. The tip-tilt correction servo consists of a Piezo tip-tilt platform with a mirror, a quadrant photodiode as a tip-tilt sensor, and controllers. The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor measures the residual wavefront errors and they are corrected by the MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) deformable mirror. The MEMS deformable mirror allows the compact size at low cost compare to adaptive secondary mirror and other deformable mirrors. As the frame rates of the MEMS deformable mirror is about tens of kHz, the frame rates of the detector in wavefront sensor is the bottleneck of the wavefront correction speed. For faster performance, we replaced a CCD which provides frame rates only 70 Hz with a CMOS with frame rates up to 450 Hz.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.442-448
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• 2002

지상용 천문 망원경에서 대기의 영향으로 인해 발생하는 오차를 실시간으로 보상해주는 적응 광학을 이용하면 지상용 망원경으로도 막대한 비용이 드는 우주용 망원경에 버금가는 이미지를 얻을 수 있다. 일반적으로 적응 광학계에서는 대기에 의한 파면 오차를 제거하기 위하여, 변형 거울을 변형시켜 각 부분의 파면 오차를 보정하는 방법을 이용하므로, 변형 거울을 효과적으로 변형시키기 위한 구동기의 특성과 구동기의 배열에 대한 연구가 필수적이다. 하나의 구동기론 작동하여 거울을 변형시킬 때, 변형된 거울면의 형태를 영향 함수라고 정의하며, 이러한 영향 함수를 이용하여 변형 거울을 효과적으로 모형화하고 설계할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 유한요소해석을 이용하여 계산된 변형 거울의 실제 영향 함수를 가우시안 함수 형태로 단순화하고, 추가로 구동기들 사이의 영향을 고려한 커플링 계수를 도입하여, 주어진 구동기 배열에 대한 영향 함수를 결정하였다. 또한 변형 거울에 사용되는 구동기들 사이의 적절한 커플링 계수를 결정하기 위하여, 커플링 계수 변화에 따른 변형거울의 성능 변화를 해석하였다. 이와 같이 구성된 영향 함수를 이용하석, 구동기가 삼각형과 사각형 형태와 같이 등간격으로 배치되어 있을 때의 구동기 간격에 따른 변형 거울의 성능을 해석하고 효과적인 배열을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2006

We are studying the application of an adaptive optics system to upgrade the beam quality of a laser. The adaptive optics (AO) system consists of a bimorph deformable mirror, a Shack-Hartmann sensor and a control system. In most AO applications, the beam aperture is considered to be circular. However, in some cases such as laser beams from unstable resonators, the beam apertures are annulus or a holed-rectangle. In this paper, we investigate how well a bimorph deformable mirror of ${\Phi}120\;mm$ clear aperture can compensate phase distortions for three different beam configurations; 1) ${\Phi}120\;mm$ circular aperture, 2) ${\Phi}100\;mm$ annulus aperture with a ${\Phi}20\;mm$ hole and 3) $70\;mm{\times}70\;mm$ square aperture with a hole of $30\;mm{\times}30\;mm$. This study concludes that the bimorph mirror, which might be considered as a modal controller, can compensate tilt, defocus, coma and astigmatism, and spherical aberration for all three beams.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2435-2439
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• 2005

In case of visual sensing systems with multiple mirrors, systematic errors need to be reduced by the system calibration and the mirror position adjustment in order to enhance system measurement accuracy. In this paper, a self calibration method is presented for a visual sensing system designed to measure the three-dimensional information in deformable peg-in-hole tasks. It is composed of a CCD camera and a series of mirrors including two pyramidal mirrors. By using an image of the inner pyramidal mirror taken by the system, the error parameters of the inner pyramidal mirror could be calibrated or adjusted. Also the influence of the plane mirrors is investigated.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.777-791
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• 2018

This paper discusses the shape control of deformable mirrors for Adaptive Optics in the dynamic range. The phenomenon of control-structure interaction appears when the mirror becomes large, lowering the natural frequencies $f_i$, and the control bandwidth $f_c$ increases to improve the performance, so that the condition $f_c{\ll}f_i$ is no longer satisfied. In this case, the control system tends to amplify the response of the flexible modes and the system may become unstable. The main parameters controlling the phenomenon are the frequency ratio $f_c/f_i$ and the structural damping ${\zeta}$. Robustness tests are developed which allow to evaluate a lower bound of the stability margin. Various passive and active strategies for damping augmentation are proposed and tested in simulation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.817-819
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• 2007

A low-stress organic polymer membrane is proposed as a deformable mirror that can be incorporated into a cellular phone camera to achieve auto focusing without motor-type moving parts. It is demonstrated that our fabricated device has an optical power of 20 diopters and can switch focus in 14 ms. The surface roughness of the organic membrane is measured around 15 nm, less than ${\lambda}$/20 of the visible light. With curve fitting, we found that the actuated membrane is almost parabolic in shape, which leads to less aberration than spherical surfaces. It is suitable for reflective-optics systems.

• 천문학회보
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.65.1-65.1
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• 2011

We built a simple Adaptive Optics (AO) system at laboratory. This AO system is a step toward developing AO system for astronomical use. In this step, the AO system consists of He-Ne laser as a artificial light source, wavefront sensor, MEMS (Micro electro mechanical system) type deformable mirror and several lenses. MEMS deformable mirror allows the compact system at low cost and the only several mm sized collimated beam. We made Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor using a lenslet array and a fast frame CCD. Its performance is verified using an artificial phase disturber and noting the movement of spot images by the lenslet array. The frame rate of the driving software is about 70 fps, depending on the control parameters. The characteristics of MEMS deformable mirror was measured which includes the voltage-to-deflection relation, influence function, and cross-talk. The total system is operated under closed-loop control for the artificial phase disturber and the wavefront is found to be compensated successfully.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2009년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.411-412
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• 2009