Boston Micromachines' Steven Cornelissen to Present at Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010

Cambridge, Mass., June 17, 2010 – Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that it will be presenting a talk on “MEMS Deformable Mirrors for Astronomical Adaptive Optics” at SPIE’s Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010 at Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, California, on July, 2 at 1:30 PM. Steven Cornelissen, Vice President of Engineering at Boston Micromachines will present.

Cornelissen will report on the development of high actuator count, micro-electromechanical (MEMS) deformable mirrors designed for high order wavefront correction in ground and space-based astronomical adaptive optics instruments. The design of these polysilicon, surface-micromachined MEMS deformable mirrors builds on technology that has been used extensively to correct for ocular aberrations in retinal imaging systems and for compensation of atmospheric turbulence in free-space laser communication.