Dr. Thomas Ruppel Profile

Dr. Thomas Ruppel

Director Technology at SwissOptic AG

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Proceedings Article | 15 November 2019 Presentation + Paper

Polishing ultra-precision ground aspherical surfaces with MRF

Armin Rumpel, Thomas Ruppel

Proceedings Volume 11175, 111750P (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2536759

KEYWORDS: Polishing, Surface finishing, Magnetorheological finishing, Aspheric lenses, Glasses

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Proceedings Article | 4 March 2019 Paper

Lens in a voice coil: a compact design approach for z-scanners

Thomas Ruppel, Ronny Andronico, Michael Deyerler, Robert Mastromattei

Proceedings Volume 10925, 1092513 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2508614

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Surgery, Sensors, Laser therapeutics, Optical components, Position sensors, Eye, Lens design, Magnetism

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Proceedings Article | 25 September 2012 Paper

Modelling the optical pathway of the Large Binocular Telescope

Michael Böhm, Thomas Ruppel, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Oliver Sawodny, Tom Herbst, Martin Kürster

Proceedings Volume 8449, 844915 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926293

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Motion models, Modeling, Sensors, Data modeling, Systems modeling, Device simulation, Motion measurement, Distance measurement

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

Holographic combination of low-resolution Shack-Hartmann sensor and holography-based modal Zernike wavefront sensor

Shihao Dong, Tobias Haist, Wolfgang Osten, Thomas Ruppel, Oliver Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84473Y (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925899

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Wavefront sensors, Wavefronts, Holograms, Holography, Diffraction, Optical design, Signal detection, Adaptive optics, Turbulence

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

Development of new concepts to minimize the impact of fast telescope vibrations seen by the E-ELT/MICADO wavefront sensors

Alexander Keck, Jörg-Uwe Pott, Thomas Ruppel, Oliver Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84474W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927030

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Telescopes, Adaptive optics, Wavefront sensors, Sensors, Control systems design, Mirrors, Deformable mirrors, Atmospheric optics, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2012 Paper

Intelligent vibration control of ELTs and large AO hardware

J.-U. Pott, M. Kürster, J. Trowitzsch, J. Borelli, R.-R. Rohloff, T. Herbst, M. Böhm, A. Keck, T. Ruppel, O. Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 8447, 84474V (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927028

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Adaptive optics, Vibration control, Telescopes, Imaging systems, Sensors, Actuators, Wavefront sensors, Mirror mounts, Atmospheric optics

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SPIE Journal Paper | 7 March 2012

Suppressing low-order eigenmodes with local control for deformable mirrors

Rikard Heimsten, Mette Owner-Petersen, Torben Andersen, Thomas Ruppel, Douglas MacMynowski

OE, Vol. 51, Issue 02, 026601, (March 2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.OE.51.2.026601

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, Deformable mirrors, Control systems, Finite element methods, Sensors, Optical engineering, Adaptive optics, Telescopes, Observatories

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Proceedings Article | 14 September 2011 Paper

Response analysis and experimental results of holography-based modal Zernike wavefront sensor

Shihao Dong, Tobias Haist, Wolfgang Osten, Thomas Ruppel, Oliver Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 8165, 816506 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.891808

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Holograms, Wavefront sensors, Fourier transforms, Atmospheric modeling, Turbulence, Holography, Atmospheric sensing, Wavefronts, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 14 July 2010 Paper

Adaptive optics simulation with mechanically motivated basis functions

Thomas Ruppel, Wolfgang Osten, Oliver Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 7736, 77363Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856023

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Deformable mirrors, Mirrors, Bessel functions, Optical simulations, Systems modeling, Wavefront sensors, Computing systems, Model-based design, Partial differential equations

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Proceedings Article | 14 August 2006 Paper

Wavefront sensing by an aperiodic diffractive microlens array

Lars Seifert, Thomas Ruppel, Tobias Haist, Wolfgang Osten

Proceedings Volume 6293, 629302 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.677845

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Microlens array, Microlens, Wavefront sensors, Wavefronts, Cameras, CCD cameras, Distance measurement, Calibration, Spherical lenses

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