Alignment solutions for the optical development system lab for the ATLAS instrument

Tyler Evans; John Lehan; Hector Chavez

doi:10.1117/12.930306

15 October 2012 Alignment solutions for the optical development system lab for the ATLAS instrument

Tyler Evans, John Lehan, Hector Chavez

Proceedings Volume 8491, Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification VI; 849109 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930306
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The ATLAS Instrument for the ICESat-2 mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center requires a test-bed to prove out new concepts before the mission launches in 2016. The Optical Development System (ODS) laboratory was created to use breadboard, prototype, and engineering-model levels of hardware and software to model and evaluate the ATLAS alignment system. A one meter parabolic mirror was used to create a collimated light beam to align prototype and engineering model transmitter and receiver optics and test closed-loop alignment algorithms. To achieve an error of less than two micro-radians, an active deformable mirror was used to correct the wave front to subtract out the collimator mount error.

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Tyler Evans, John Lehan, and Hector Chavez "Alignment solutions for the optical development system lab for the ATLAS instrument", Proc. SPIE 8491, Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification VI, 849109 (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930306

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