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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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• Full title: Lightweight TN-Plane Actuated Deformable Mirrors for Space Telescopes
• Author: Michael J Shepherd
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9781288332632
• ISBN: 9781288332632
• ID: 08244249
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 189 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2012

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