A piston sensing and control algorithm for the segmented mirror coarse phasing using a dispersed fringe sensor (DFS) has been developed for Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) wavefront sensing and control. The DFS can detect residual piston errors as large as order of a depth-of-focus and can phase the segment mirrors with an accuracy less than 0.1 micron, which is within the capture range of the fine phasing for NGST. A series of experiments has been carried out on the NGST's Wavefront Control Testbed (WCT) to validate the modeling results, evaluate the DFS performance, and systematically explore the factors that affect the DFS performance. This paper reports the testbed results for several critical issues of DFS performance, including DFS dynamic range, accuracy, fringe visibility, and the effects of segment mirror aberrations.


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    Title :

    Segmented mirror coarse phasing with a dispersed fringe sensor: experiments on NGST's wavefront control testbed


    Contributors:
    Basinger, S. (author) / Ohara, C. (author) / Petrone, P. (author) / Burns, L. (author) / Bowers, C. (author) / Lowman, A. (author) / Redding, D. (author) / Shi, F. (author)

    Publication date :

    2002-08-22


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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