Adaptive beam-combining mirror for the MMT

Laird Miller Close; Guido Brusa-Zappellini; Donald G. Bruns; Michael Lloyd-Hart; Donald W. McCarthy Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.217729

25 August 1995 Adaptive beam-combining mirror for the MMT

Laird Miller Close, Guido Brusa-Zappellini, Donald G. Bruns, Michael Lloyd-Hart, Donald W. McCarthy Jr.

Proceedings Volume 2534, Adaptive Optical Systems and Applications; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.217729
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We present a novel, high performance, and economical design for tip-tilt mirrors. The two- dimensional tilt of each mirror is sensed through capacitive displacement sensors sensitive to approximately 1 nm rms out to 10 KHz. An analogue PID circuit utilizes this positional feedback to lock the mirrors to the commanded tilt via voice coil drivers. These mirrors achieve a 10 - 90% risetime of 3.0 ms and have a critically damped response at 100 - 150 Hz update rates. We have incorporated six of these tip-tilt mirrors to adaptively combine all six beams from the MMT. During first light of the instrument in April 1995, individual beams improved from 1.1 inch to 0.6 inch FWHM in 60 s exposures corrected with 60 Hz update rates.

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Laird Miller Close, Guido Brusa-Zappellini, Donald G. Bruns, Michael Lloyd-Hart, and Donald W. McCarthy Jr. "Adaptive beam-combining mirror for the MMT", Proc. SPIE 2534, Adaptive Optical Systems and Applications, (25 August 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.217729

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