Future large aperture space telescopes may use lightweight correctable active mirrors. The Naval Postgraduate School’s Segmented Mirror Telescope (SMT) test bed uses 1-meter silicon carbide (SiC) active mirror segments to form a sixsegment deployable 3-meter telescope. The active segments suffer from residual surface errors after a correction is applied. A deformable mirror is added at the SMT pupil plane to improve this residual error. The large active SMT segment represents the woofer, and a small continuous micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) deformable mirror represents the tweeter. A global influence matrix and closed loop constrained least squares controller command the active segment and additional deformable mirror as a single device. An interferometer measures the surface error and provides feedback to the controller. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate a significant improvement in wavefront error compared to a 2-step sequential woofer-tweeter constrained least squares control approach.


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    Title :

    Correction of active space telescope mirror using woofer-tweeter adaptive optics


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    Conference:

    Sensors and Systems for Space Applications VIII ; 2015 ; Baltimore,Maryland,United States


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    Publication date :

    2015-05-22





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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