Active cophasing and aligning testbed with segmented mirrors

doi:10.1364/OE.19.008670

Active cophasing and aligning testbed with segmented mirrors

Weirui Zhao and Genrui Cao »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 9, pp. 8670-8683 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.008670

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An active segmented cophasing imaging testbed with a high accurate optical adjustment and control in nanoscale is set up. A two-dimensional dispersed fringe analysis method is used to calculate the piston error between the adjacent segments. Segments alignment of tip-tilt is fulfilled by overlapping diffraction pattern centroids of the individual segment on the focal plane. The cophasing errors are corrected by sensitive micro-displacement actuators under a computer closed-loop control. A FISBA interferometer is introduced to evaluate that a final total residual surface error of about 0.08λ RMS and the residual piston error of 0.026λ RMS are achieved (λ = 633nm).

OCIS Codes
(120.1880) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Detection
(120.2650) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Fringe analysis
(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement

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Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology

History
Original Manuscript: February 7, 2011
Revised Manuscript: March 15, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: April 15, 2011
Published: April 19, 2011

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Weirui Zhao and Genrui Cao, "Active cophasing and aligning testbed with segmented mirrors," Opt. Express 19, 8670-8683 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-9-8670

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Dillow, J.
Dogoda, P.
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Esposito, S.
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Kirkman, D.
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LeBoeuf, C. M.
Lindler, D.
Long, F.
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Mast, T.
Michaels, S.
Montoya, L.
Morell, A.
Moser, R.
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Noethe, L.
Norton, T.
Nylund, M.
Ohara, C.
Ohara, C. M.
Pacini, L. K.
Perkins, B.
Petrone, P.
Pinna, E.
Powers, M.
Qiudong, Z.
Qu, Y.
Redding, D.
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Reyes, M.
Sanders, G. H.
Shanshan, W.
Shi, F.
Sirko, E.
Spyromilio, J.
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Su, D.
Surdej, I.
Tozzi, A.
Troy, M.
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Yang, S.
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Acta Opt. Sin.

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Appl. Opt.

Proc. SPIE

F. Shi, D. C. Redding, A. E. Lowman, C. W. Bowers, L. A. Burns, P. Petrone, C. M. Ohara, and S. A. Basinger, “Segmented mirror coarse phasing with a dispersed fringe sensor: experiment on NGST’s wavefront control testbed,” Proc. SPIE 4850, 318–328 (2003).
P. Petrone, S. Basinger, L. A. Burns, C. W. Bowers, A. Chu, D. Cohen, P. S. Davila, B. H. Dean, P. Dogoda, M. W. Fitzmaurice, J. Green, K. Ha, B. Hayden, D. Lindler, A. E. Lowman, C. Ohara, M. E. Wilson, D. C. Redding, F. Shi, and B. Zukowaki, “Optical design and performance of the NGST wavefront control testbed,” Proc. SPIE 4850, 353–361 (2003).
C. M. LeBoeuf, P. S. Davila, D. C. Redding, A. Morell, A. E. Lowman, M. E. Wilson, E. W. Young, L. K. Pacini, and D. R. Coulter, “Developmental cryogenic active telescope testbed, a wavefront sensing and control testbed for the next generation space telescope,” Proc. SPIE 3356, 1168–1178 (1998).
P. S. Davila, A. E. Lowman, M. E. Wilson, R. A. Boucarut, C. M. LeBoeuf, D. C. Redding, and E. W. Young, “Optical design of the developmental cryogenic active telescope testbed,” Proc. SPIE 3356, 141–152 (1998).
C. Bowers, P. Davila, B. Dean, B. Perkins, M. Wilson, D. Redding, S. Basinger, D. Cohen, A. Lowman, F. Shi, L. Burns, M. Fitzmaurice, T. Norton, P. Petrone, and L. Wheeler, “Initial test results from the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) wavefront sensing and control testbed (WCT),” Proc. SPIE 4013, 763–773 (2000).
F. Gonte, N. Yaitskova, F. Derie, A. Constanza, R. Brast, B. Buzzoni, B. Delabre, P. Dierickx, C. Dupuy, R. Esteves, C. Frank, S. Guisard, R. Karban, E. Koenig, J. Kolb, M. Nylund, L. Noethe, I. Surdej, A. Courteville, R. Wilhelm, L. Montoya, M. Reyes, S. Esposito, E. Pinna, K. Dohlen, M. Ferrari, and M. Langlois, “APE: the active phasing experiment to test new control system and phasing technology for an European extremely large optical telescope,” Proc. SPIE 5894, 58940Z (2005).
K. Bell, R. Moser, M. Powers, and S. Erwin, “A deployable optical telescope ground demonstration,” Proc. SPIE 4013, 559–567 (2000).
D. B. DeYoung, J. Dillow, S. Corcoran, E. Andrews, J. Yellowhair, and K. DeVries, “Ground demonstration of an optical control system for a space-based sparse aperture telescope,” Proc. SPIE 3356, 1156–1167 (1998).
D. Su, W. Zou, Z. Zhang, Y. Qu, and S. Yang, “Experiment system of segmented-mirror active optics,” Proc. SPIE 4003, 417–425 (2000).
S. Esposito, E. Pinna, A. Tozzi, P. Stefanini, and N. Devaney, “Co-phasing of segmented mirrors using the pyramid sensor,” Proc. SPIE 5169, 72–78 (2003).
C. M. Ohara, D. C. Redding, F. Shi, and J. J. Green, “PSF monitoring and in-focus wavefront control for NGST,” Proc. SPIE 4850, 416–427 (2003).
R. Gilmozzi and J. Spyromilio, “The 42 m European ELT: status,” Proc. SPIE 7012, 701219 (2008).
J. Nelson and G. H. Sanders, “The status of the Thirty Meter Telescope project,” Proc. SPIE 7012, 70121A (2008).
Z. Qiudong, W. Shanshan, and C. Genrui, “Novel method of phasing segmented mirrors,” Proc. SPIE 7281, 728105 (2009).
S. Wang, Q. Zhu, and G. Cao, “Dispersed Rayleigh interferometer,” Proc. SPIE 7283, 72833G (2008).

Other

K. Dohlen, “Phase masks in astronomy from the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to coronographs,” in Astronomy with High Contrast Imaging II Instrumentation for Coronagraphy and Nulling Interferometry, Vol. 12 of EAS Publications Series (European Astronomical Society, 2004), pp. 33–44.

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