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Christopher C Wilcox1, Jonathan R Andrews, Sergio R Restaino
1Remote Sensing Division, Code 7215, Naval Research Laboratory, 3550 Aberdeen SE, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico 87117, USA.
Abstract:
A deformable mirror mounted on a two-axis tilt platform can provide wavefront compensation at a single location in an adaptive optics system, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of optical components in the system and in a simplification of the alignment. However, the moment of inertia of a deformable mirror is significantly different from that of the monolithic mirror commonly mounted on a tilt platform. We report on what are to our knowledge the first experimental results of mounting a microelectromechanical deformable mirror onto a fast steering platform and the first observation that at low operating frequencies high-order deformation of the deformable mirror membrane was not recorded.
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