Frequently Asked Questions

ALPAO Deformable Mirrors (DMs) are instruments that provide state-of-the-art performances for fast and accurate wavefront corrections. They feature large strokes, high dynamic motion, and excellent optical quality.

The key features of ALPAO Deformable Mirrors include large deformation, high dynamic motion, and excellent optical quality. They also have low hysteresis, high linearity, and great stability.

Using ALPAO Deformable Mirrors allows for the correction of large aberrations and shape wavefronts with high precision. They have large amplitudes of deformation, which allow for the use of adaptive optics as never before. They also provide excellent correction because adaptive optics temporal errors are drastically reduced.

The settling times of ALPAO Deformable Mirrors are as low as 400µs (at ±10%) with very low overshoot.

Additional features and benefits of ALPAO Deformable Mirrors include operating temperature of -50/35°C, protected silver coating, vacuum compatibility, sub-nm resolution, and no protective glass. They also have a square grid-pattern except for large size DM (hexagonal pattern) and come with software drivers for Labview®, Matlab®, C/C++.

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