• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.160-167
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• 2007

In this paper, we presented the development results of high speed wavefront sensor which is used in diagnosing the beam quality of He-Ne laser for adaptive optics system. The beam quality information of laser in AO system is necessarily required for diagnosing the optical components or correcting the distorted wavefront afterward. According to system requirements, normally, it is requested that there are high precision of measurement and real time processing speed. The developed wavefront sensor in this paper achieved maximum 30Hz of measurement rate and ${\lambda}/20(\;{@}\;{\lambda}=0.6328{\mu}m)$ of measurement precision in RMS. We also applied the developed into an experimental adaptive system and verified the performance of it by correcting the aberrated wavefront with a rate of 30Hz and $\lambda$/20 precision using the combination of the developed and PID control algorithm.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.2
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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.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.188-189
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• 2000

원자력 산업에서는 레이저진동측정기와 같은 원격/비접촉 측정기술이 많이 사용된다. 가동 중인 연구용 원자로의 핵연료 진동측정 같은 경우도 이러한 원격측정기술이 요구되고 있으나, 측정 대상체가 유동하는 유체 안에 있으므로 입사한 레이저의 파면이 변형되어 레이저진동측정기의 적용이 어렵다. 적응광학계(adaptive optics system; 또는 능동광학계)는 유동 층에서 변형된 파면을 파면측정 센서로 측정하고, 변형거울(deformable mirror)등의 파면보정 장치를 사용하여 파면을 보정하는 기술이다. 본 연구에서는 Shack-Hartmann 파면측정센서를 개발하고, 변형거울과 파면측정센서를 컴퓨터에 연결하여 레이저 파면의 왜곡상태를 폐회로(closed-loop)로 보정하는 장치를 개발하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.32-33
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• 2002

적응광학계(adaptive optics system ; AO)는 파면을 파면측정장치로 측정하고 제어용 컴퓨터를 사용하여 파면보정장치를 구동함으로써 파면의 왜곡 및 수차를 보정하는 장치로, 최근 천문학 및 의료분야에서 활용되고 있다. 적응광학계의 제어는 파면을 영역별로 나누어 제어하는 zonal 방법과 모드로부터 제어하는 modal 방법이 있다. 본 연구에서는 파면 측정 장치(wavefront sensor ; WFS)인 Shack-Hartmann sensor로 측정된 파면의 기울기 정보로부터 Zernike 다항식의 계수를 계산하여 수차의 정보를 구현하고, 왜곡된 파면을 실시간으로 보정하기 위하여 Zernike 계수로부터 위상을 재구성한 후 보정장치인 변형거울을 제어하는 방법으로 파면을 보정하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.57-60
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• 2014

The distortion correction system of Head up display that is installed in vehicle has been studied both experimentally and theoretically for the removal of the optical lens distortion. A new adaptive correction method is having a decisive effect on correction in the optical lens distortion of Head up display. This adaptive correction system removes various distortion that has occurred because of the design tolerances of Head up display and the assemble tolerances into vehicle. It is especially efficient in removal of a barrel distortion and pin cushion of Head up display.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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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.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.170-174
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• 2024

A laser beam propagating in free space can be negatively affected by atmospheric turbulence. To overcome this and correct the wavefront error of the laser beam itself, a deformable mirror (DM), which is a key component of adaptive optics, is widely used. In this paper, a novel precision assembling method is suggested for a multi-channel high-density DM. The material of the mirror sheet of the DM is silicon carbide (SiC), and the actuator is a stacked-type lead-magnesium-niobate (Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃; PMN). To connect the mirror sheet and each actuator, a flexure is inserted. The flexure can make the DM operate with full strokes without the failure of adhesive. A series of jigs were designed and applied in order to assemble these three parts (the mirror sheet, actuators, and flexures) precisely. After assembly, the performance of the DM was also checked.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.167-176
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• 2022

Adaptive optics (AO) systems compensate for atmospheric disturbance, especially phase distortion, by introducing counter-wavefront deformation calculated from real-time wavefront sensing or prediction. Because AO system implementations are time-consuming and costly, it is highly desirable to estimate the system's performance during the development of the AO system or its parts. Among several techniques, we mostly apply statistical analysis, computational simulation, and optical-bench tests. Statistical analysis estimates performance based on the sum of performance variances due to all design parameters, but ignores any correlation between them. Computational simulation models every part of an adaptive optics system, including atmospheric disturbance and a closed loop between wavefront sensor and deformable mirror, as close as possible to reality, but there are still some differences between simulation models and reality. The optical-bench test implements an almost identical AO system on an optical bench, to confirm the predictions of the previous methods. We are currently developing an AO system for a 1.6-m ground telescope using a deformable mirror that was recently developed in South Korea. This paper reports the results of the statistical analysis and computer simulation for the system's design and confirmation. For the analysis, we apply the Strehl ratio as the performance criterion, and the median seeing conditions at the Bohyun observatory in Korea. The statistical analysis predicts a Strehl ratio of 0.31. The simulation method similarly reports a slightly larger value of 0.32. During the study, the simulation method exhibits run-to-run variation due to the random nature of atmospheric disturbance, which converges when the simulation time is longer than 0.9 seconds, i.e., approximately 240 times the critical time constant of the applied atmospheric disturbance.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

Shack-Hartmann sensors are widely employed as a wavefront measuring device in various applications. Adaptive optics is one of the major applications. Since an adaptive optics system should be operated in real-time, high-speed wavefront sensing is essential. In high-speed operation, integration time of an image detector is very short. In this case, noises such as readout noise and photon noise greatly influence the accuracy of wavefront sensing. Therefore a fast and noise-insensitive centroid finding algorithm is required for the real-time wavefront sensing. In this paper, the multi-resolution correlation method is proposed. By employing multi-resolution images, this method greatly reduces the computation time when compared to the fast Fourier transform (FFT) correlation method. The verification is performed through the computational simulation. In this paper, the center of mass method, correlation method and multi-resolution correlation method are employed to compare the measurement accuracy of the centroid finding algorithms. The accuracy of a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor using the proposed algorithm is proved to be comparable to that of the conventional correlation method.