Design and performance evaluation of sensors and actuators for advanced optical systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7980, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Clark, Natalie ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Coronagraph; MEMs; MOEMs; Photonics; Star Tracker; Tunable Filters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; COMMERCIAL SENSORS; CORONAGRAPH; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; INCOMING LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIALS; MICRO/NANO SATELLITES; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POWER CONSUMPTION; RADIATION TOLERANCES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SATELLITE MISSION; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

ACTUATORS; BIOSENSORS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DESIGN; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LENSES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOSENSORS; NASA; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE OPTICS; SPACECRAFT; STAR TRACKERS; STARS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 79956107746     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.881924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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