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PAMELA: Fabrication and test of a telescope with a 36 segment adaptive primary mirror

Bobby Ulich, Anthony Gleckler, Gregory Ames, David Markason, and Skip Radau

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The Phased Array Mirror, Extendible Large Aperture (PAMELA™) technology has been developed to answer the need for large aperture active and adaptive optical reflector systems1,2. The PAMELA system consists of a large reflector made up of smaller, hexagonal segments which utilize piston sensors on each of the segments. These are non-contacting, inductively-coupled edge-sensors which measure the relative piston displacement between adjacent segments. A wavefront sensor provides the tilt information for each segment.

© 1992 Optical Society of America

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