We report on progress at the University of Hawaii on the integration and testing setups for the adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii. We report on the development of the handling fixtures and alignment tools we will use along with progress on the optical metrology tools we will use for the lab and on-sky testing of the system.
An adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) with novel actuator technology is being designed and built for the UH88 telescope as a demonstration of a new generation of ASMs that might be deployed at ground based observatories such as Keck, Subaru, and TMT. Before putting the ASM on the telescope, a set of calibrations and characterizations need to be made in the lab. The crucial lab characterizations of the ASM are to measure its influence functions, and its surface shape when powered and unpowered. To measure these, we develop a novel and inexpensive optical metrology approach using phase measuring deflectometry. This paper describes the simulations we wrote to model the deflectometry method, our data acquisition/analysis pipeline, and a lab prototype system we built that demonstrates its feasibility on a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) deformable mirror. Based on the information gained through the deflectometry simulation and the setup prototype, we conclude that phase measuring deflectometry is a reasonable method for obtaining the influence functions but that the absolute surface shape of the ASM will be limited by our knowledge of the placement of components within the deflectometry setup itself. We discuss challenges with extending this approach to larger convex adaptive secondary mirrors.
We are developing a new adaptive secondary mirror (ASM) for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope based on a novel and very efficient hybrid variable reluctance actuator developed by TNO. The actuator technology has broad implications on the ASM design and results in an ASM with a thicker facesheet, lower power dissipation, and simple controls. We report here preparations and plans for lab testing as well as on-sky demonstration of the ASM. The lab calibrations of the ASM influence functions will use a phase measuring deflectometry setup. The on-sky tests will include the evaluation of the use of the ASM for narrow field AO observations at visible through near infrared wavelengths, for very wide fields of view ground-layer adaptive optics, and for seeing limited non-adaptive optics observations.
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