My advisor's made it clear that speeding up the SLM is a low priority at the moment, and I'm to focus on getting the DM and WFS working faster.

I suppose this makes sense, but accomplishing those things means a lot of waiting around to hear back from the manufacturer. In the mean time I"m going to try my hand at writing some basic adaptive controllers using the same architecture as in the beam pointing experiments. I already have a Simulink model that actually runs the experiment, so instead of screwing around with the SLM, for the mean time I can just add desired disturbance wavefronts to the measurement. From a control perspective this shouldn't make any difference, and it'll let me get my feet wet with some adaptive methods. I can get an identified disturbance model that can spit out disturbances with realistic statistics, so doing this should be "trivial."