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Lightweight TN-Plane Actuated Deformable Mirrors for Space Telescopes
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Lightweight TN-Plane Actuated Deformable Mirrors for Space Telescopes

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This research focused on lightweight, in-plane actuated, deformable mirrors, with the ultimate goal of developing a 20-meter light gathering aperture for space telescopes. The 0.127 meter diameter deformable mirror small scale testbed was modelled in finite elements using MSC. Nastran software and then used as a basis for a quasi-static controller. Experi- mental tracking of Zernike tip, tilt, and defocus modes was accomplished. The analytical solutions to plate-membrane and beam-string ordinary differential equations were developed. A simplified approach to modelling the axisymmetric cases was also presented. A novel static control strategy, the Modal Transformation Method, was developed to form Zernike surfaces within an interior, or clear aperture, region using a number of statically-actuated Bessel-based vibration modes. The scaling problem for membrane optics is addressed. Significantly, it is shown linear modelling may correctly explain the behavior of small-scale models, but only non-linear models will account for the important terms which govern the full-scale large aperture membrane telescopes.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Biblioscholar
Date
1 November 2012
Pages
242
ISBN
9781288332632

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

This research focused on lightweight, in-plane actuated, deformable mirrors, with the ultimate goal of developing a 20-meter light gathering aperture for space telescopes. The 0.127 meter diameter deformable mirror small scale testbed was modelled in finite elements using MSC. Nastran software and then used as a basis for a quasi-static controller. Experi- mental tracking of Zernike tip, tilt, and defocus modes was accomplished. The analytical solutions to plate-membrane and beam-string ordinary differential equations were developed. A simplified approach to modelling the axisymmetric cases was also presented. A novel static control strategy, the Modal Transformation Method, was developed to form Zernike surfaces within an interior, or clear aperture, region using a number of statically-actuated Bessel-based vibration modes. The scaling problem for membrane optics is addressed. Significantly, it is shown linear modelling may correctly explain the behavior of small-scale models, but only non-linear models will account for the important terms which govern the full-scale large aperture membrane telescopes.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Biblioscholar
Date
1 November 2012
Pages
242
ISBN
9781288332632