Design and modeling of the off-axis parabolic deformable mirror laboratory

Hari B. Subedi; Roser Juanola-Parramon; Tyler D. Groff

doi:10.1117/12.2530414

9 September 2019 Design and modeling of the off-axis parabolic deformable mirror laboratory

Hari B. Subedi, Roser Juanola-Parramon, Tyler D. Groff

Proceedings Volume 11117, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX; 111171Z (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530414
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Coronagraph-equipped direct imaging missions need an active wavefront control system to cancel out the optical aberrations that degrade the performance of the coronagraphs. A fast steering mirror is used to control Line-of- Sight (LoS) pointing error caused by the telescope jitter. In addition to controlling other low-order aberrations such as astigmatism and coma, high stroke, high actuator density deformable mirrors (DMs) are also used to control the electric field at the required high spatial frequencies. We are designing a testbed to verify a different deformable architecture, where the powered optic in the optical train are controllable and have lower actuator count compared to the existing DMs with nominal surfaces. This simplifies the packaging issue for space missions and reduces both cost and risk of having the entire coronagraph instrument's performance depending on one or two high-actuator count DMs. The testbed would also be capable of testing different low-order wavefront sensing algorithms, which focuses in the near-term on a new adaptive Kalman filtering and gradient decent method to estimate the harmonic LoS errors that affect space telescopes. In the long run, we would test different machine learning techniques to estimate low-order aberrations and non-linear algorithms for digging the region of high contrast called the dark holes (DH).

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Hari B. Subedi, Roser Juanola-Parramon, and Tyler D. Groff "Design and modeling of the off-axis parabolic deformable mirror laboratory", Proc. SPIE 11117, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets IX, 111171Z (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530414

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