Compensation for 6.5-K cryogenic distortion of a fused quartz mirror by refiguring

Gordon C. Augason; Jeffrey A. Young; Ramsey K. Melugin; Dana S. Clarke; Steven D. Howard; Michael Scanlan; Steven N. Wong; Kenneth C. Lawton

doi:10.1117/12.140885

21 January 1993 Compensation for 6.5-K cryogenic distortion of a fused-quartz mirror by refiguring

Gordon C. Augason, Jeffrey A. Young, Ramsey K. Melugin, Dana S. Clarke, Steven D. Howard, Michael Scanlan, Steven N. Wong, Kenneth C. Lawton

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Proceedings Volume 1765, Cryogenic Optical Systems and Instruments V; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140885
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A 46 cm diameter, lightweight, Amersil TO8E, fused-natural-quartz mirror with a single-arch cross section was tested at the NASA-Ames Research Center Cryogenic Optical Test Facility to measure its cryogenic distortion at 6.5 K. Then the mirror was refigured with the inverse of the measured cryogenic distortion to compensate for this figure defect. The mirror was retested at 6.5 K and found to have a significantly improved figure. The compensation for cryogenic distortion was not complete, but preliminary analysis indicates that the compensation was better than 0.25 waves P-V if edge effects are ignored. The feasibility of compensating for cryogenic distortion by refiguring has thus been verified.

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Gordon C. Augason, Jeffrey A. Young, Ramsey K. Melugin, Dana S. Clarke, Steven D. Howard, Michael Scanlan, Steven N. Wong, and Kenneth C. Lawton "Compensation for 6.5-K cryogenic distortion of a fused-quartz mirror by refiguring", Proc. SPIE 1765, Cryogenic Optical Systems and Instruments V, (21 January 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140885

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