Abstract

Our work involves investigating adaptive wavefront correctors which may be used as alternatives to the deformable mirror in an adaptive optics system. Liquid crystal spatial light modulators (LC–SLMs) have several advantages over deformable mirrors, and also some problems of their own, as discussed in ref [1]. Much of the past work on LCs has centered around using modified LG displays which were not designed as high quality optical elements. In this paper we describe results produced using a LC-SLM which was designed specifically for wavefront correction and shaping.

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