Liquid Crystal based adaptive optics system to compensate both low and high order aberrations in a model eye

Author(s): Quanquan Mu, Zhaoliang Cao, Dayu Li, Lifa Hu, and Li Xuan

Abstract:

“Based on a simple eye model system, a high resolution adaptive optics retina imaging system was built to demonstrate the availability of using liquid crystal devices as a wave-front corrector for both low and high order aberrations. Myopia glass was used to introduce large low order aberrations. A fiber bundle was used to simulate the retina. After correction, its image at different diopters became very clear. We can get a root mean square (RMS) correction precision of lower than 0.049λ (λ=0.63μm) for over to 10 diopters and the modulation transfer function (MTF) retains 511p/mm, which is nearly the diffraction limited resolution for a 2.7mm pupil diameter. The closed loop bandwidth was nearly 4 Hz, which is capable to track most of the aberration dynamics in a real eye.”

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Publication: Optics Express
Issue/Year: Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 1946-1953
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001946

Computer generation of optimal holograms for optical trap arrays

Author(s): Roberto Di Leonardo, Francesca Ianni, and Giancarlo Ruocco

Abstract:

“We propose a new iterative algorithm for obtaining optimal holograms targeted to the generation of arbitrary three dimensional structures of optical traps. The algorithm basic idea and performance are discussed in conjunction to other available algorithms. We show that all algorithms lead to a phase distribution maximizing a specific performance quantifier, expressed as a function of the trap intensities. In this scheme we go a step further by introducing a new quantifier and the associated algorithm leading to unprecedented efficiency and uniformity in trap light distributions. The algorithms performances are investigated both numerically and experimentally.”

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Publication: Optics Express
Issue/Year: Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 1913-1922
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001913