Brief
Description:
The
software provides user-friendly control of devices needed for adaptive optics:
wavefront sensor (Shack-Hartmann or other) with a digital camera, wavefront
corrector (such as Boston Micromachines deformable mirror, or ImagineEyes
deformable mirror), laser controller (such as Thorlabs ITC-502 or other) and
power meters (such as Newport 1930 or other).
Applications:
For
the control of wavefront sensors and aberration correction devices used in
adaptive optics in scanning laser ophthalmoscopes, optical coherence tomography
and other research applications of adaptive optics.
Advantages:
The
software can be used with various hardware setups and is provided in both object
and source code to allow users to modify it to perform customized
experiments.
Technology
Status:
Software
is being used by research teams in vision science. It is available for license at $10,000
per seat. Special arrangements are
provided to research institutions which are members of the NSF-funded Center for Adaptive Optics. The software can also be used with
TsunamiWave (2-11150-08017), which provides computation of the Zernike
characterization of the optical wavefront.