Future NASA missions with large optical systems will require alignment stability at the nanometer level. However, design studies indicate that vibration resulting from on-board disturbances can cause jitter at levels three to four orders of magnitude greater than this. Feasibility studies have shown that a combination of three distinct control layers will be required for these missions, including disturbance isolation, active and passive structural vibration suppression, and active optical pathlength compensation. The CSI technology challenge is to develop these design and control approaches that can reduce vibrations in the optical train by a factor of 1000 to 10,000. The focus of the paper is on describing the Phase B Testbed structure and facility, as the experimental results are included in other papers presented at this same conference.


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    Title :

    The JPL Phase B interferometer testbed


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    Publication date :

    1993-02-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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