Objective
The goal of the project is to develop and transfer to industry the technology of silicon micromachined adaptive mirrors. These inexpensive electrically-controlled optical components may replace solid mirrors and lenses in a wide range of optical and optoelectronic systems, providing the possibility of quick adaptation of system parameters to changing operation environments.
The project will be structured in the following way:
Technology:
- Development of inexpensive fabrication technologies with the main focus on the reduction of the production costs, improving device reliability, packaging, lifetime and uniformity of device characteristics within a batch.
- Development of devices for special applications: varifocal mirrors with a very large range of focal distance control, correctors of special aberrations, micromachined laser adaptive mirrors for UV visible and IR spectrum ranges, spatial light modulators for optical information processing.
Beam shaping: This workpackage is aimed at the applications development in the field of non-imaging micromachined adaptive optics.
- Laser intra-cavity adaptive optics and output beam control including an active control of the beam profile, active control of the pumping configuration in semiconductor-laser based pumping systems and fiber coupling.
- Development of an optical setup for testing aspherical surfaces.
- Applications of micromachined adaptive mirrors in combination with the micromirror devices of TI for optical memory, optical interconnects and illumination systems.
Imaging:
The aim is to investigate different applications of micromachined adaptive mirrors in imaging optics, by using membranebased adaptive optics in optical probe technology, particularly confocal microscopy (CM), for quick focusing of imaging optics. We shall model the potential improvements using rigorous numerical code and construct a prototype breadboard device to test the ideas.
Spatial light modulator:
This workpackage aims to develop applications of micromachined spatial light modulators, based on the technology of thin reflective membranes. The applicability of developed devices to different projection and information processing tasks will be assessed.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics optoelectronics
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy confocal microscopy
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry metalloids
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data processing
- natural sciences physical sciences optics laser physics
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2600 AA Delft
Netherlands
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