ASM: a scaled down Active Segmented Mirror for the Active Phasing Experiment

Christophe Dupuy; Frédéric Gonté; Christoph Frank

doi:10.1117/12.790350

17 July 2008 ASM: a scaled down Active Segmented Mirror for the Active Phasing Experiment

Christophe Dupuy, Frédéric Gonté, Christoph Frank

Proceedings Volume 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II; 70123B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790350
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The construction of extremely large telescope is only possible with a segmented primary mirror. The phasing of the primary mirror due to its size and its number of segments is a main concern at the European Southern Observatory. The European Southern Observatory has developed a test bench called Active Phasing Experiment to study new phasing technology and new telescope control system. The key subsystem of this experiment is a scaled down Active Segmented Mirror (ASM) composed of sixty-one hexagonal segments of seventeen millimeters side to side. Each hexagonal mirror can all be controlled in piston, tip and tilt. The integration of this jewel piece of opto-mechanic started after the successful results obtained with the manufacturing of a prototype composed of only seven modules.

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Christophe Dupuy, Frédéric Gonté, and Christoph Frank "ASM: a scaled down Active Segmented Mirror for the Active Phasing Experiment", Proc. SPIE 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II, 70123B (17 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790350

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