title: Modal liquid crystal wavefront corrector.
abstract: Results are presented of the properties of a liquid crystal wavefront corrector for adaptive optics. The device is controlled using modal addressing in which case the device behaves more like a continuous facesheet deformable mirror than a segmented one. Furthermore, the width and shape of the influence functions are electrically controllable. We describe the construction of the device, the optical properties, and we show experimental results of low order aberration generation.
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authors.lastname: Kotova
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authors.lastname: Kvashnin
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authors.lastname: Rakhmatulin
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authors.lastname: Zayakin
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authors.lastname: Guralnik
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authors.lastname: Klimov
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authors.lastname: Clark
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authors.lastname: Love
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authors.lastname: Naumov
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authors.lastname: Saunter
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authors.lastname: Loktev
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authors.lastname: Vdovin
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authors.lastname: Toporkova