A deformable secondary mirror for the VLT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Arsenault, R ^a   Biasi, R ^b   Gallieni, D ^c   Riccardi, A ^d   Lazzarini, P ^c   Hubin, N ^a   Fedrigo, E ^a   Donaldson, R ^a   Oberti, S ^a   Stroebele, S ^a   Conzelmann, R ^a   Duchateau, M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b Microgate srl   (Italy)

^c ADS International Srl   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive secondary; Capacitive sensor; Corrective optics; Force actuator; GLAO; Large Deformable Mirror; Thin shell; Voice Coil

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ADAPTIVE SECONDARY; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CORRECTIVE OPTICS; FORCE ACTUATORS; GLAO; LARGE DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; THIN SHELLS; VOICE COILS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33749402399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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