Mr. Alan D. Akerstrom Profile

Alan D. Akerstrom

Senior Systems Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratories

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Publications (3)

Proceedings Article | 8 September 2010 Paper

The WISE telescope and scanner: design choices and hardware results

Deepak Sampath, Alan Akerstrom, Mark Barry, Jim Guregian, Mark Schwalm, Virginia Ugolini

Proceedings Volume 7796, 779609 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864347

KEYWORDS: Scanners, Telescopes, Imaging systems, Distortion, Space telescopes, Mirrors, Interfaces, Optical design, Optical instrument design, Beam splitters

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

Hardware results for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope and scanner

Mark Schwalm, Alan Akerstrom, Mark Barry, Jim Guregian, Mark Larsen, Peter Laquidara, Jack Regan, Virginia Ugolini

Proceedings Volume 7731, 77310Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857499

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Mirrors, Telescopes, Scanners, Infrared telescopes, Infrared radiation, Imaging systems, Distortion, Beam splitters, Image quality

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Proceedings Article | 17 September 2007 Paper

Reaction bonded silicon carbide gimbaled pointing mirror

J. Robichaud, A. Akerstrom, S. Frey, D. Crompton, P. Cucchiaro, G. Deveau, M. Peters, S. Mason, C. Ullathorne

Proceedings Volume 6666, 66660O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.732590

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Silicon carbide, Mirror pointing, Polishing, Finite element methods, Servomechanisms, Line of sight stabilization, Space mirrors, Thermal modeling, Silicon

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