Resumen
The trend to minimize the thickness in optical mirrors has led to several practical limits in their fabrication and operation. The design of a flexible membrane mirror segment, which overcomes most of these limitations and can be conformed to giant segmented primary mirrors, is presented. The segment consists of a lightweight multi-layer hybrid structure, which will permit precise active control of the reflecting surface by means of a continuous elastic medium interface with embedded pneumatic actuators. Conceptual designs, finite element analysis model simulations and experimental results are included.
Idioma original | Inglés |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 283-290 |
Número de páginas | 8 |
Publicación | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volumen | 4840 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 2002 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Evento | Future Giant Telescopes - Waikoloa, HI, Estados Unidos Duración: 26 ago. 2002 → 28 ago. 2002 |