@inproceedings{9e65d72e4e5046f8bf06da483d4d6a1c,
title = "Characterization of deformable mirrors for the MagAO-X project",
abstract = "The MagAO-X instrument is an upgrade of the Magellan AO system that will introduce extreme adaptive optics capabilities for high-contrast imaging at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. A central component of this system is a 2040-actuator microelectromechanical (MEMS) deformable mirror (DM) from Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) that will operate at 3.63 kHz for high-order wavefront control. Two additional DMs from ALPAO will perform low-order and non-common-path science-arm wavefront correction. The accuracy of the wavefront correction is limited by our ability to command these DMs to a desired shape, which requires a careful characterization of each DM surface. We have developed a characterization pipeline that uses a Zygo Verifire Interferometer to measure the surface response and a Karhunen-Loeve transform to remove noise from our measurements. We present our progress in the characterization process and the results of our pipeline applied to an ALPAO DM97 and a BMC Kilo-DM, demonstrating the ability to drive the DMs to a flat of ≤2nm and ≤4nm RMS in our beam footprint on the University of Arizona Wavefront Control (UAWFC) testbed.",
keywords = "deformable mirrors, extreme adaptive optics, high-contrast imaging",
author = "{Van Gorkom}, Kyle and Miller, {Kelsey L.} and Males, {Jared R.} and Olivier Guyon and Rodack, {Alexander T.} and Jennifer Lumbres and Knight, {Justin M.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018 ; Conference date: 10-06-2018 Through 15-06-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1117/12.2323450",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781510619593",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Dirk Schmidt and Laura Schreiber and Close, {Laird M.}",
booktitle = "Adaptive Optics Systems VI",
}