%0 Journal Article
%T MEMS practice, from the lab to the telescope
%A Katie M. Morzinski
%A Andrew P. Norton
%A Julia Wilhelmson Evans
%A Layra Reza
%A Scott A. Severson
%A Daren Dillon
%A Marc Reinig
%A Donald T. Gavel
%A Steven Cornelissen
%A Bruce A. Macintosh
%A Claire E. Max
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1117/12.910964
%X Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology can provide for deformable mirrors (DMs) with excellent performance within a favorable economy of scale. Large MEMS-based astronomical adaptive optics (AO) systems such as the Gemini Planet Imager are coming on-line soon. As MEMS DM end-users, we discuss our decade of practice with the micromirrors, from inspecting and characterizing devices to evaluating their performance in the lab. We also show MEMS wavefront correction on-sky with the "Villages" AO system on a 1-m telescope, including open-loop control and visible-light imaging. Our work demonstrates the maturity of MEMS technology for astronomical adaptive optics.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1566v1