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    • Optics and Optical Engineering
    • Metrology
    • Surface Science

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    • Deformable mirrors (DMs) are crucial dynamic compensators in interferometric measurement systems.
    • Accurate surface description of DMs, often complex freeform surfaces, is vital for measurement speed and precision.
    • Existing methods may face limitations in speed and accuracy for real-time applications.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose an accurate and fast method for describing deformable mirror surfaces.
    • To enhance the performance of real-time interferometric measurement systems using DMs.
    • To develop an automatically configurable Gaussian radial basis function (GRBF) approach.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing automatically configurable Gaussian radial basis functions (GRBFs) for surface description.
    • Relating GRBF distribution and shape factors to surface complexity for improved accuracy.
    • Employing a traversal optimization algorithm for automatic fitting and reduced computation time.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated improved accuracy in describing complex freeform deformable mirror surfaces.
    • Achieved enhanced fitting speed through an optimized calculation process.
    • Validated the method's feasibility via numerical simulations and practical experiments.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed GRBF-based method offers a significant advancement in deformable mirror surface description.
    • This technique improves both the speed and accuracy of real-time interferometric measurements.
    • The automatic configuration and optimization contribute to practical applicability in dynamic compensation systems.