Iris AO, Inc

News and Press Releases

March 2007 Iris AO sponsors a student working with the Center for Adaptive Optics to build an adaptive optics demonstration system to be used at Hawaii Community College.

March 2007 Iris AO delivers two S37-5 DMs to Professor Chris Dainty at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

March 2007 Iris AO delivers a modified Zywave aberrometer to Bausch & Lomb. Modifications to the Zywave included adding an Iris AO segmented DM and modifying the optics such that the modifications fit within the existing Zywave footprint. The modifications demonstrate adding AO technology to a clinical instrument while maintaining a compact footprint necessary in a clinical setting.

"We are very pleased with the compact size and ease of use of the AO-equipped Zywave system that Iris AO modified for us. The small size of Iris AO's MEMS deformable mirror and their AO systems expertise enabled the addition of adaptive optics into the existing footprint of a clinical instrument."

Ian Cox, B. Optom. Ph.D
Distinguished Research Fellow
Scientific Clinical & Medical Affairs
Baush & Lomb

February 2007 Iris AO improves MEMS processing to greatly enhance yields, resulting in more devices available for customer delivery and reducing costs for volume purchases.

February 2007 Iris AO successfully completed its Phase I SBIR with the NSF after demonstrating closed-loop AO control on a test bench and AOcSLO. The control loop rapidly converges to a stable correction. The implementation of the controller was optimized for execution speed. Benchmarking on a low-cost embedded DSP indicated that the controller can easily support a 30Hz frame rate, even at segment counts higher than the 37 segment device used the test system.

January 2007 Iris AO wins a $600K Phase II SBIR from NASA to develop an "Extreme-Precision MEMS Segmented Deformable Mirror" to be used for planet detection in space missions.

January 2007 Iris AO gives an invited presentation of its calibrated piston-tip-tilt controller at the MOEMS technical conference as part of Photonics West 2007. The precision controller combined with Iris AO's calibrated SmartDriver drive electronics provides open-loop positioning capabilities of 30 nm rms over nearly the entire operating range of the high-stroke segmented DMs. Iris AO was the first in the industry to provide precision calibrated drive electronics and is the first manufacturer in the industry to provide precision-calibrated DMs.


	Last Update: 30th April 2007				Iris AO, Inc.