Turbulence profiling using pupil plane wavefront data derived Fried parameter values for a dynamically ranged Rayleigh beacon

Progress towards tomographic wavefront reconstruction using dynamically refocused Rayleigh laser beacons

Simultaneous wavefront measurements are planned at the 6.5 m MMT telescope of five dynamically refocused Rayleigh laser beacons (RLGS) and a bright natural star to demonstrate tomographic wavefront reconstruction. In this paper, we summarize preliminary data recorded from the five laser beacons during the first telescope run at the MMT in June 2004. Beam projection is from behind the secondary ...

Pupil wavefront manipulation for optical nanolithography

As semiconductor lithography is pushed to smaller dimensions, process yields tend to suffer due to subwavelength topographical imaging effects. Three dimensional or “thick mask” effects result in such things as a pitch dependent best focus and, for alternating phase shift masks (AltPSMs), an intensity imbalance between etched and un-etched features. Corrective mask structures such as the dual t...

Atmospheric turbulence profiling with SLODAR using multiple adaptive optics wavefront sensors.

The slope detection and ranging (SLODAR) method recovers atmospheric turbulence profiles from time averaged spatial cross correlations of wavefront slopes measured by Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors. The Palomar multiple guide star unit (MGSU) was set up to test tomographic multiple guide star adaptive optics and provided an ideal test bed for SLODAR turbulence altitude profiling. We present t...

Turbulence Profiling Using a Scanning Scintillometer

A dynamically reconfigurable wavefront array architecture for evaluation of expressions

A reconfigurable wavefront array rDPA (reconfigurable datapath architecture) for evaluation of any arithmetic and logic expression is presented. Introducing a global I/O bus to the array simplifies the use as a coprocessor in a single bus oriented processor system. Fine grained parallelism is achieved using simple reconfigurable processing elements which are called datapath units (DPUs). The wo...