Development of an active optical system for the SOAR telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1052-1060

  Neufeld, Conrad ^a   Bennett, Victor ^a   Sarnik, Andrea ^a   Ruthven, Gregory ^d   Keane, Michael ^a   Sebring, Thomas ^b   Krabbendam, Victor ^c  

^a Goodrich Optical Space Syst Div   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Active primary mirror; Adaptive optics; Articulated secondary mirror; Fast steering mirror; Lightweight optics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PRIMARY MIRRORS; ARTICULATED SECONDARY MIRRORS; FAST STEERING MIRRORS; LIGHTWEIGHT OPTICS;

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CALIBRATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444281610     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551583     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. C. Neufeld, M.C. Zolcinski-Couet, M. Keane, G. Ruthven, "The active primary system for the SOAR Telescope," to appear in SPIE 2004.
2. J.T. Stein, C. Neufeld, "A fast steering mirror for the SOAR telescope," to appear in SPIE 2004.
3. A. Sarnik, et al "Software and control system for SOAR telescope active optical system," to appear in SPIE 2004.