Summary form only given. A Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirror (MMDM) consists of a thin stretched membrane suspended over an array of electrostatic electrodes. The membrane is fabricated by LPCVD deposition of a thin /spl sim/0.5 /spl mu/m layer of tensile stressed silicon nitride Si/sub n/N/sub m/, followed by anisotropic etching of bulk silicon to release the membrane. Pure nitride membranes are sufficiently strong for mirrors with diameter of up to 25 mm; larger membranes - up to 50 mm - can be fabricated by sandwiching a relatively thick - up to 10 /spl mu/m - layer of epi-poly silicon between two nitride layers. Compactness, simplicity and high optical quality make MMDM the device of choice for a number of optical applications in laser optics, imaging, optical testing and astronomy.
Agile beams and micromachined membrane deformable mirrors
The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society ; 2 ; 576-577 vol.2
2002-01-01
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