Performance verification and environmental testing of a unimorph deformable mirror for space applications.
- Concepts for future large space telescopes require an active optics system to mitigate aberrations caused by thermal deformation and gravitational release. Such a system would allow on-site correction of wave-front errors and ease the requirements for thermal and gravitational stability of the optical train. In the course of the ESA project "Development of Adaptive Deformable Mirrors for Space Instruments" we have developed a unimorph deformable mirror designed to correct for low-order aberrations and dedicated to be used in space environment. We briefly report on design and manufacturing of the deformable mirror and present results from performance verifications and environmental testing.
| Author: | Peter Rausch, Sven Verpoort, Ulrich Wittrock |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7716 |
| URL: | http://www.icsoproceedings.org |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25974/fhms-771 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO, Tenerife, Spain |
| Publisher: | FH Münster |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/12/05 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Provider of the Publication Server: | FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences |
| Release Date: | 2014/12/05 |
| Tag: | adaptive optics; deformable mirror; space optics; unimorph |
| Faculties: | Physikingenieurwesen (PHY) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Publication list: | Wittrock, Ulrich |
| Licence (German): |  Zweitveroeffentlichung |