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Appl Opt. 2001 May 20;40(15):2345-55. doi: 10.1364/ao.40.002345.

Characterization and control of a multielement dual-frequency liquid-crystal device for high-speed adaptive optical wave-front correction.

Applied optics

D Dayton, S Browne, J Gonglewski, S Restaino

PMID: 18357243 DOI: 10.1364/ao.40.002345

Abstract

Multielement nematic liquid-crystal devices have been used by others and ourselves for closed-loop adaptive control of optical wave-front distortions. Until recently the phase retardance of available devices could be controlled rapidly in only one direction. The phase retardance of the dual-frequency device can be controlled rapidly in both directions. Understanding the dynamics of the phase retardance change is critical to the development of a high-speed control algorithm. We describe measurements and experiments leading to the closed-loop control of a multielement dual-frequency liquid-crystal adaptive optic.

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