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September 2007

A new type of DM: Segment tip-tilt-piston mirrors for space-based telescopes

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September 2007

BU/BMC DMs in R&D 100 Award winning system: MEMS AO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope

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January 2007 Subsurface two photon fluorescence microscopy with AO demonstrated in BU-Wellman collaboration
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August 2006
Freely available LabVIEW drivers for 140 actuator DMs, courtesy of BU summer intern Oleg Shatrovoy.
Labview
June 2006

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UCO Lick Observatory's Laboratory for Adaptive Optics demonstrate subnanometer control of a 1024 actuator deformable mirrora milestone in MEMS for large telescope astronomy, enabled by BU technology.

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January 2006

Characterization of contour shapes achievable with a MEMS deformable mirror, presented at Photonics West, San Jose, CA

January 2006

Colleagues at Michigan Tech University recently developed a model describing dynamic behavior of BU/BMC deformable mirrors described in an recent article (J. Micromech. Microeng. 16 (2006) 303–313)

August 2005

Colleagues at Rensselear Polytechnic Insitutute recently developed a scanning microscope using a BU/BMC deformable mirror described in an recent article (Optics Express 13 6504)

August 2005
Jason Stewart presented work on high speed (100kHz) contol of deformable mirror actuators at the annual meeting of SPIE in San Diego
January 2005

Stephan Kratz, Global Manufacturing MS exchange student from RTWH Aaachen, Germany, defends his thesis on "Compact low power modulated retroreflection using MEMS micromirrors"

December 2004

Collier, J., Wroblewski, D., and Bifano, T., "Development of a rapid-response flow-control system using MEMS microvalve arrays"
J. Microelectromechanical Systems, [13] (6), pp. 912-922, 2004

June 2004

Boston Micromachines DM for Vision Science: "The application of MEMS technology for adaptive optics in vision science," Doble, N.; Williams, D.R.; Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE,[10]3, pp. 629 - 635

June 2004

"High Resolution Wavefront Control Using Micromirror Arrays," Presented at Solid-State Sensor, Actuator and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

May 2004

Ph.D. Student Yaopeng Zhou wins Berman Future of Light Award for his poster: "High-resolution scanning laser ophthalmoscope using MEMS-based adaptive optics"

January 2004

Boston University picked to develop mirror for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission

September 2003

A MEMS-based Adaptive Optics Phoropter, using BU µDM technology, was selected for a 2003 R&D100 award by R&D Magazine

 

 

 

Thomas Bifano, College of Engineering, Boston University, 8 St. Mary's St., Boston, MA 02215, (617) 353-8908, tgb@bu.edu