The mirror technology was developed in the 1950s by the University of Padua in Italy and has since enabled telescopes to deliver more precise images of stars, planets, and other celestial bodies ...

Mirrors polished to extraordinary precision are a key part of the interferometry operation at the heart of gravitational wave detection, and a project at the University of Adelaide has developed a new ...

Even in the vast expanse of space, the smallest detail can make a big difference. A soon-to-launch experiment from MIT shows how. The Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) CubeSat will ...

Deformable mirror: An optical mirror whose surface can be actively modified to correct wavefront distortions. MEMS: Micro-electromechanical systems integrating sensors, actuators, ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oea.2023.230039 discusses diffraction-limited visible imaging for large aperture telescopes.

It took years of design and engineering toil to successfully get the largest-ever telescope mirror into space. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope’s trademark, 6.5-meter-in-diameter, gold-coated ...

Researchers from Zhejiang University, China, have used a simple and inexpensive method to fabricate a novel deformable micro-mirror. The deformable micro-mirror built by the Chinese team is mainly ...

Boston Micromachines Corporation , a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products, adaptive optics systems and scientific instruments, announced today that its 4K-DM is currently ...

The world’s largest ground-based solar telescope is one step closer to operation with the acceptance of the deformable mirror engineered by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC ...

Michael Lloyd‐Hart, Thermal Performance Enhancement of Adaptive Optics by Useof a DeformableSecondary Mirror, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 112, No. 768 (February 2000) ...