Adaptive Optics Control for Laser Material Processing
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چکیده
An adaptive optics system is used for correcting tip-tilt disturbances in an experimental laser material processing setup. The proposed tip-tilt controller is based on PI-controllers that are fed with disturbance estimates from a Kalmanfilter. In addition, delays due to wavefront computation in the wavefront sensor and from data transmission are taken into account in the loop-shaping design. Laboratory experiments demonstrate the practical usability of the presented approach.
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