Patent ID: 7359063

Claim:
A phase correction system for correcting the phase of an input beam, comprising: an interferometer, for generating a detection beam having an scanning optical fringe pattern from the input beam; an integrated beam compensation module, comprising a detector array comprising a plurality of detectors, each detector for measuring a phase of a portion of the detection beam; and a segmented mirror array having a plurality of mirror segments, each segment associated with one of the plurality of detectors and each segment for compensating a portion of the input beam associated with the portion of the detector beam according to the measured phase of the portion of the detector beam; wherein each detector in the detector array comprises: an optical detector, for converting the scanning optical fringe pattern into a plurality of oscillating electronic signals; a clipping module, for clipping the plurality of oscillating electronic signals; and a counter module, for generating a phase map from the plurality of clipped oscillating electronic signals, a reference signal, and a clock signal.