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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School

Segmented Mirror Telescope model and simulation

Abstract

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The Segmented Mirror Telescope (SMT) housed at the Naval Postgraduate School is a unique, state-of-the-art optical instrument built to explore new technologies needed for future spacebased telescopes. A discrete Fourier transform wavefront reconstruction technique developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is discussed in this thesis as applied to a hexagonal aperture. A Fourier domain implementation of a spatial-frequency modal controller for a simple spring-mass model of a deformable mirror surface is provided by this thesis. This technique avoids more difficult time-domain solutions, is computationally efficient and scalable to much larger multi-input, multi-output systems than the SMT.

Degree

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Department dc:contributor.department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Grantor dc:publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Axtell, Travis W.
Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
  • Cristi, Roberto
  • Kim, Jae-Jun.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/5614
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oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/5614

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Axtell, Travis W.. Segmented Mirror Telescope model and simulation. Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10945/5614