Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that its Multi-DM deformable mirror is being used at the University of Rochester Center for Vision Science's Yoon Lab in its research to improve vision performance.
Research at the Yoon Lab endeavors to objectively understand optical quality of the eye and to improve visual performance by correcting the optical defects in the eye with various correction methods. Various factors are considered in the research including depth perception, binocular vision, and highly aberrated eyes vs. normal eyes. Boston Micromachines' deformable mirrors have been selected for use in several projects where adaptive optics is being used to correct aberrations in order to measure visual performance and understand the interaction between adaptation effects of the human visual system and the human brain.
"In our research we use adaptive optics to compensate for optical defects called wavefront aberration. The deformable mirror serves as the wavefront corrector and is used to restore the plane wavefront, which in turn will improve visual performance and to induce different aberrations for understanding their impacts on visual performance such as neural adaptation and depth of focus," said Geunyoung Yoon, Lab Director for the Yoon Lab at the University of Rochester Eye Institute. "We are pleased to be using Boston Micromachines' Multi-DM deformable mirror, which we selected because of its compact size and high number of actuators."