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2006 News and Press Releases November 2006 – Iris AO demonstrates first AO-corrected images taken with the USAF Phase II SBIR AOcSLO at the Center for Adaptive Optics 2006 Fall Retreat. November 2006 – Iris AO is granted U. S. patent 11/097,777 Method and Apparatus for an Actuator System with Integrated Control. October 2006 – Iris AO invited to present its MEMS DM technology at the SPIE Optics East 2006 conference. September 2006 – In short time, John Codona demonstrates operation of two BMC DMs with the 256-channel Iris AO SmartDriver electronics. In response to questions of how the electronics were working with a competitor's mirror, Dr. Codona wrote in an email, “The dual driver system is working nicely and I have now got it driving the two segmented DMs in the lab as the two halves of an interferometric complex field modulator. I couldn't be happier with how things are working!” August 2006 – Iris AO delivers a 256-channel SmartDriver electronics system and interface board to Johanan “John” Codona, Ph.D. at the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics, University of Arizona. The precision calibrated electronics will replace the low-resolution 8-bit electronics Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) provides for its DMs. August 2006 – Iris AO wins a $100k Phase I SBIR from the National Eye Institute entitled “High Resolution and High Contrast Near–IR Imaging of the Human Fundus.” The grant will study designs and conduct experiments with near-IR wavelengths to look at deep structures in the human fundus. August 2006 – Iris AO images photoreceptors of a human fundus using its MEMS DM in the flood-illuminated AO system at the U.C. Davis Medical Center. August 2006 – Iris AO delivers a prototype MEMS DM and drive electronics to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for testing in a nulling coronagraph design. July 2006 – The National Science Foundation awarded a Phase I SBIR to Iris AO for “Control System Development for MEMS Segmented Deformable Mirrors.” The control system developed under this grant will couple a segmented DM and Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor to provide adaptive optics corrections commensurate in magnitude and speed with the human eye. July 2006 – Iris AO successfully completes its NASA Phase I SBIR. As a result of research efforts for this research grant, Iris AO automated its DM calibration system and improved the performance of its open-loop controller. Stability of the DMs was demonstrated to the nanometer level. June 2006 – Iris AO co-founder Nathan Doble writes the wavefront corrector chapter “Wavefront Correctors for Vision Science” for the reference handbook “Adaptive Optics for Vision Science: Principles, Practices, Design and Applications” Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering Wiley-Interscience. May 2006 – Iris AO coauthors an article in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science linking cone dropout to standard measures of visual function. Research for the article was conducted with the AO fundus imager at the U.C. Davis Medical Center designed and built by Iris AO and Lawrence Livermore National Labs in 2004. April 2006 – Iris AO presents its MEMS DM technology at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2006. March 2006 – Iris AO is granted U. S. patent 11/097,777 Method and Apparatus for an Actuator System with Integrated Control. This continuation patent of 11/097,777 extends Iris AO’s patent portfolio for its MEMS DM technology. January 2006 – Iris AO presents wavefront corrector requirements for correction of ocular aberrations based on two large populations of normal human eyes at the BIOS technical session of Photonics West 2006. January 2006 – Iris AO invited to present its high-stroke MEMS DM technology, unveiling its technology for the first time to the greater AO community.
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