General Support

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If you have a question that is not answered in the application notes below, please fill out this form.

Application Notes

Below is a list of all of our application notes. Application notes are constantly being revised to better serve our customers. If you find any problems with them or have suggestions on how we can make them better, please contact us. Thanks!

AN001 - Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Calibration

AN002 - Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Characterization

AN003 - Setting Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Parameters

AN004 - AOS Hartmann Wavefront Code Verification

AN005 - Getting Started with AOS Hardware

AN006 - Camera Frame Rate Variations

AN007 - Using a Membrane DM to Generate Zernike Modes

AN008 - Fitting a Surface with Influence Functions

AN009 - Membrane DM Temporal Response Testing

AN010 - Working with .WFS files in Matlab

AN011 - Actively Flattening a Biased Membrane Deformable Mirror

AN012 - Control Matrices Generation for Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Adaptive Optics

AN013 - Export Control of AOS Hardware

AN014 - Wavefront Sensor Accuracy vs. Pixels and SNR (requires account)

AN015 - Sensitivity of a CCD-based Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor to 1064 nm Radiation

AN016 - Note on Studying some properties of Zernike Polynomials

AN017 - Measuring Plate-Type Deformable Mirror Crosstalk (export controlled-requires account)

AN018 - Measurements of RMS Voltage Noise from AOS Drive Electronics(export controlled-requires account)

PR001 - Press Release on the MZA/AOS Plate-type DMs

Video Tutorials

Below is a list of all of our video tutorials. Video tutorials are constantly being revised to better serve our customers. If you find any problems with them or have suggestions on how we can make them better, please contact us. Thanks!

VT001 - Getting Started Video (NEW!)

VT002 - HWFS Adaptive Optics Demo Video (requires account)

VT003 - HWFS Absolute Referenece Alignment Tutorial Video (requires account)