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OKO AO system for amateur telescope

Flexible Optical BV supplies complete closed-loop adaptive optical systems for real-time correction of optical aberrations and generation of precision wavefronts. Click here to download a short video in DIVX format, illustrating typical performance of our AO systems.
Applications include scientific instrumentation, astronomy, ophthalmology, laser optics and optical alignment systems. Click here for published work based on our mirrors.

We supply closed-loop AO systems based on Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors (MMDM) with up to 79 channels and Piezoelectric Deformable Mirrors (PDM) with 19, 37, 79 and 109 channels.

Real-time AO phase control is realized by our FrontSurfer Hartmann-Shack WF sensor, offering a wide variety of control options including SVD eigenmode analysis and mode filtering. The speed of control depends on the camera and computer, usually up to 30 frames per second is achieved with standard, moderately priced camera and a laptop computer.

We can also supply deformable mirror systems with linear 19 and 38-ch MMDM and 20-ch PDM for ultrafast pulse shaping. These application-specific systems should be controlled by a customer-made feedback sensors and software.