An active co-phasing imaging testbed with segmented mirrors

Weirui Zhao; Genrui Cao

doi:10.1117/12.883590

23 May 2011 An active co-phasing imaging testbed with segmented mirrors

Weirui Zhao, Genrui Cao

Proceedings Volume 8044, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IV; 80440X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883590
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

An active co-phasing imaging testbed with high accurate optical adjustment and control in nanometer scale was set up to validate the algorithms of piston and tip-tilt error sensing and real-time adjusting. Modularization design was adopted. The primary mirror was spherical and divided into three sub-mirrors. One of them was fixed and worked as reference segment, the others were adjustable respectively related to the fixed segment in three freedoms (piston, tip and tilt) by using sensitive micro-displacement actuators in the range of 15mm with a resolution of 3nm. The method of twodimension dispersed fringe analysis was used to sense the piston error between the adjacent segments in the range of 200μm with a repeatability of 2nm. And the tip-tilt error was gained with the method of centroid sensing. Co-phasing image could be realized by correcting the errors measured above with the sensitive micro-displacement actuators driven by a computer. The process of co-phasing error sensing and correcting could be monitored in real time by a scrutiny module set in this testbed. A FISBA interferometer was introduced to evaluate the co-phasing performance, and finally a total residual surface error of about 50nm rms was achieved.

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Weirui Zhao and Genrui Cao "An active co-phasing imaging testbed with segmented mirrors", Proc. SPIE 8044, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications IV, 80440X (23 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883590

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