deformable mirror adaptive optics mems founded boston massachusetts u.s. 1999 founder dr. thomas bifano paul bierden headquarters cambridge massachusetts area served worldwide products customized adaptive optics enabled mems products including deformable mirrors optical modulators retro reflectors and ophthalmoscopes website bostonmicromachines.com boston micromachines corporation is a us company operating out of cambridge massachusetts . boston micromachines manufactures and develops instruments based on mems technology to perform open and closed loop adaptive optics . the technology is applied in astronomy beam shaping vision science retinal imaging microscopy laser communications and national defense . the instruments developed at boston micromachines include deformable mirrors optical modulators and retinal imaging systems all of which utilize adaptive optics technology to enable wavefront manipulation capabilities which enhance the quality of the final image . contents 1 history 2 research and development 3 applications 3.1 astronomy 3.2 biological imaging 3.3 laser beam and pulse shaping 4 management 5 awards 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit founded in 1999 by dr. thomas bifano and paul bierden boston micromachines is a provider of mems based mirror products for use in commercial adaptive optics systems which apply wavefront correction to produce high resolution images of the human retina and enhance blurred images . the company also performs research in optical mems fabrication . 1 2 research and development edit boston micromachines is funded in part by research programs and develops new products for astronomy microscopy pulse shaping beam shaping fiber coupling space optics retinal imaging and national defense purposes . 3 most recently boston micromachines has developed an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope for high resolution in vivo imaging in the human retina for use in pre clinical studies . the instrument is currently in use in the feinberg school of medicine and the joslin diabetes center . 4 capabilities include quantitative measures of cone physiology detection of microaneurysms and small vessel blood flow profiling . their products are often customized for specific applications . 5 applications edit astronomy edit boston micromachines develops deformable mirrors for telescopes to correct for atmospheric disturbance . 6 projects currently using boston micromachines mirror technology include the villages project at the lick observatory as well as the gemini planet imager in chile . 7 biological imaging edit through the use of adaptive optics deformable mirrors can be used to enhance confocal techniques such as two photon excitation fluorescence 2pef second and or third harmonic generation shg thg respectively coherent anti stokes raman spectroscopy cars scanning laser ophthalmoscopy slo optical coherence tomography oct as well as conventional wide field microscopy . 8 of particular interest is that deformable mirrors increase the resolution of retinal 9 images to achieve 2 m resolution levels . photoreceptor cells are around 3 m in diameter . without adaptive optics resolution levels are in the 10 15 m range . research using other confocal techniques is currently taking place at such locations as the university of durham harvard university and boston university . laser beam and pulse shaping edit boston micromachines deformable mirrors are capable of correcting for atmospheric distortion in long distance laser communication and other pulse shaping applications . 10 management edit paul beirden president and ceo dr. thomas bifano . chief technology officer steve cornelissen vice president of engineering awards edit 2010 r & d 100 awards 9 bioscience for mems based adaptive optics optical coherence tomography instrument 2009 dr. thomas bifano awarded bepi colombo prize 10 2007 micro nano 25 awards innovation 11 2003 r & d 100 award 12 mems based adaptive optics phoropter see also edit adaptive optics deformable mirror the era of adaptive optics modulation microelectromechanical systems optical modulator retroreflector scanning laser ophthalmoscopy wavefront sensor references edit cleo conference boston micromachines awarded grant from nasa for space imaging research . 1 boston micromachines introduces high performance reflective optical chopper for laser science applications . 2 boston micromachines applications and customer profiles . 3 retinal imaging systems . boston mircomachines corporation . retrieved 5 october 2016 . andrew norton donald gavel daren dillon and steven cornelissen 2010 high power visible laser effect on a boston micromachines mems deformable mirror 4 gpi gpi adaptive optics subsystem 5 high actuator count . retrieved 5 october 2016 . delphine d barre edward j. botcherby martin j. booth and tony wilson adaptive optics for structured illumination microscopy 2008 6 weiyao zou and stephen a. burns high accuracy wavefront control for retinal imaging with adaptive influence matrix adaptive optics 2009 7 steven menn steven a. cornelissen paul a. bierden 2007 advances in mems deformable mirror technology for laser beam shaping 8 external links edit bostonmicromachines.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title boston micromachines corporation & oldid 743874416 categories manufacturing companies established in 1999companies based in cambridge massachusettsoptics manufacturing companies1999 establishments in massachusetts navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as 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