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Research
Deployable & Reconfigurable Structures
Space Solar Power Project
Dynamics & Stability
Telescope Technologies
Constitutive Models & Damage
AAReST
AAReST Overview
Telescope Architecture
Ae105 Class Involvement
Collaborators & Facilities
Research Areas/Links
Team
Group Members
Former Group Members
Former Visitors
News
EVENTS
Publications
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Integration Testbed for AAReST Telescope

Integration Testbed for AAReST Telescope

-Two laser light sources and a precise flat mirror simulating a star at infinity

-Optomechanics for precise alignment

Characterization of AAReST Deformable Mirrors

Characterization of AAReST Deformable Mirrors

-A laser light source and a parabolic mirror to simulate a star at infinity

-A Phasics interferometer to measure the wavefront error of the deformable mirror (accuracy : 20 nm rms)

-Electro-optical characterization of CMOS/CCD sensors (measure of bias, dark, flat, noise and gain).

Thermal Vacuum Chamber

Thermal Vacuum Chamber

-One thermal vacuum chamber (vacuum up to 10-5 torr,temperature range

-25°C/+60°C) with an optical quality glass window and several ports to test our equipment, electronics and measure temperature

-One optical testbed to measure the wavefront error of mirrors and deformable mirrors being tested in the thermal vacuum chamber

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