Boston Micromachines’ Deformable Technology Subject of 16 Presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2010

Cambridge, Mass., January 22, 2010 – Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that Boston Micromachines technology will be highlighted in 16 presentations at the SPIE Photonics West conference held January 23-28 in San Francisco.  The presentations reflect the widespread use of BMC’s deformable mirror technology in the fields of biological and retinal imaging, laser communications and astronomy. Conference sessions will be presented by a mix of Boston Micromachines’ customers and staff.  Session titles and research papers’ authors follow below:

Thickness and birefringence measurement of retinal nerve fiber layer tissue using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics
Author(s): Qiang Wang, Barry Cense, Omer P. Kocaoglu, Weihua Gao, Ravi S. Jonnal, Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ.

Integrated eye tracking and wide-field imaging for adaptive optics SLO
Author(s): Robert D. Ferguson, Daniel X. Hammer, Physical Sciences Inc.; Zhangyi Zhong, Stephen A. Burns, Indiana Univ. School of Optometry

Retinal imaging with a combined adaptive optics optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy system 
Authors: Robert J. Zawadzki, UC Davis Med. Ctr.; Steven M. Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(LLNL); Suman Pilli, UC Davis Med. Ctr.; DaeYu Kim, UC Davis Medical Ctr.; Scot S. Olivier, LLNL; John S. Werner, UC Davis Med. Ctr. 

Imaging retinal nerve fiber bundles at ultrahigh speed and ultrahigh resolution using OCT with adaptive optics 
Authors: Omer P. Kocaoglu, Indiana Univ.; Barry Cense, Utsunomiya Univ.; Qiang Wang, Jeremy Bruestle, Jason Besecker, Weihua Gao, Ravi S. Jonnal, Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ.

Multimodal adaptive optics for depth enhanced high-resolution ophthalmic imaging 
Authors: Daniel X. Hammer, Mircea Mujat, Nicusor V. Iftimia,Robert D. Ferguson, Physical Sciences Inc.

An adaptive-optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope for imaging murine retinal microstructure 
Authors: Clemens Alt, David P. Biss, Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine (United States); Nadja Tajouri, Schepens Eye Research Institute (United States); Tatjana C. Jakobs, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (United States); Charles P. Lin, Massachusetts General Hospital (United States)

Shaping Light: MOEMS Deformable Mirrors for Microscopes and Telescopes (Plenary)
Author: Thomas G. Bifano, Boston Univ. Photonics Ctr. and Boston Micromachines Corp.

Comparison of double- and single-pass adaptive optics configuration in an optical sectioning microscope 
Authors: Marie Caroline Muellenbroich, Simon P. Poland, Univ. of Strathclyde; Kim-Kristin Buttenschoen, John M. Girkin, Durham Univ. ; Amanda J. Wright, Univ. of Strathclyde

Interferometric adaptive optics testbed for laser pointing, wave-front control, and phasing
Authors: Kevin L. Baker, Doug C. Homoelle, Everett J. Utterback, Steven M. Jones, LLNL

Low power MEMS retroreflectors for optical communication 
Author(s): Jason B. Stewart, Steven A. Cornelissen, Boston Micromachines Corp.; David Freedman, Mark N. Horenstein, Boston Univ.; Peter Woskov, Boston Micromachines Corp.;Jonathan Tang, B.U.

Progress report for visible light laser guidestar experiments at Lick Observatory 
Author: Donald T. Gavel, Univ. of California Observatories

Reliability of MEMS deformable mirror technology used in adaptive optics imaging systems 
Authors: Allyson L. Hartzell, Steven A. Cornelissen, Paul A. Bierden, Charlie V. Lam, Daniel Davis, Boston Micromachines Corp.

Open loop control on large stroke MEMS deformable mirrors 
Authors: Alioune Diouf, Thomas G. Bifano, Andrew Legendre, Yang Lu, Boston Univ.; Jason B. Stewart, Boston Micromachines Corp.

Adaptive optics for microscopy and photonic fabrication 
Authors: Martin J. Booth, Alexander Jesacher, Anisha Thayil, Tony Wilson, Univ. of Oxford

Implementation of an adaptive optics wide field microscope using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and a MEMS deformable mirror 
Authors: Oscar A. Azucena, Jr., Joel A. Kubby, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Development of through wafer interconnect assembly process for MEMS DMs 
Authors: Alioune Diouf, Thomas G. Bifano, Boston Univ.; Jason B. Stewart, Steven A. Cornelissen, Boston Micromachines Corp.