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7 July 2000 50-mm MEMS deformable mirror
Sigmund Manhart, Werner J. Hupfer, Susanne Nikolov, Christian Wuehrer, Gleb V. Vdovin, Zoran Sodnik
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Abstract
A 50 mm diameter micromachined membrane mirror was designed and manufactured at TU Delft/DIMES in the framework of ESA's technology research program on adaptive optics. Equipped with 39 actuator electrodes the membrane mirror can be electrostatically deformed and used as a wavefront corrector. Functional and performance tests were carried out at Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH to show its suitability for quasi- static correction of low-order aberrations caused by thermal and gravitational stresses in the future generation of large space telescopes.
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Sigmund Manhart, Werner J. Hupfer, Susanne Nikolov, Christian Wuehrer, Gleb V. Vdovin, and Zoran Sodnik "50-mm MEMS deformable mirror", Proc. SPIE 4007, Adaptive Optical Systems Technology, (7 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390294
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Electrodes

Micromachined deformable membrane mirrors

Wavefronts

Monochromatic aberrations

Deformable mirrors

Space telescopes

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