The objective of this paper is to report the recent developments in lightweight mirror technology at Composite Optics, Incorporated (COI). The developments are a result of the activities being conducted in support of ...
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The objective of this paper is to report the recent developments in lightweight mirror technology at Composite Optics, Incorporated (COI). The developments are a result of the activities being conducted in support of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) Program. The sponsors of these efforts are the NASA Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers. The requirements, design approach, performance, and the technology status for the program are summarized. The emergence of composite materials provides exciting potential for nontraditional, accurate, lightweight, stable, stiff, and high strength mirrors. This evolving technology promises significant improvement in reducing weight, cost and cycle time for future infrared, visible, and x-ray systems. Customers currently embracing composite mirror technology for radiometric use are already reaping substantial system performance benefits. Other customers interested in LIDAR, IR, visible, and grazing incidence x-ray applications are eagerly awaiting successful completion of current technology development and demonstration efforts.
Veiling glare (or flare) occurs in an imaging system when non-image forming flux strikes the focal surface. This light tends to reduce image contrast and can be caused by surface defects, dust, or anything else that m...
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Veiling glare (or flare) occurs in an imaging system when non-image forming flux strikes the focal surface. This light tends to reduce image contrast and can be caused by surface defects, dust, or anything else that might cause light to deviate from its intended imaging path. Fresnel lenses contain many such non-image forming structures as a result of their faceted and discontinuous nature. Sample optical systems for an extensive air shower observatory have been designed that consist of multiple Fresnel lenses. Veiling glare is expected to be significant in these systems, and it is desired to quantify its extent and ramifications. To this end, a series of tests has been performed on the Fresnel lens systems using non-imaging optical analysis software. A method for obtaining veiling glare information efficiently has been developed based upon the manner in which it is measured in real optical systems. By using computer software, the effects that several different parameters have on the veiling glare are analyzed independently without the use of expensive prototypes. It is shown that the amount of veiling glare is highly dependent upon the system configuration and that generalized conclusions regarding veiling glare and the number of Fresnel surfaces in a system are not possible. The analysis methods developed here, however, can be used to efficiently analyze the stray light in any system.
Although there is a mature and continually growing body of knowledge concerning the ways in which the dynamics of fluids and solids depend on characteristic length scales, current theories governing control design do ...
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Although there is a mature and continually growing body of knowledge concerning the ways in which the dynamics of fluids and solids depend on characteristic length scales, current theories governing control design do not take explicit account of length scales. Recent research has demonstrated the need to take such considerations into account in designing control systems for smart materials and smart structures in which the goal is to employ small-scale actuators and sensors with characteristic length scales in the micron to millimeter range. For many applications, sensors and actuators will need to be separated by considerable distances (in terms of characteristic length scales). Closed loop feedback designs in this setting may involve communications delays, and both the communications channels and the sensors themselves will typically be relatively noisy. Hence traditional approaches to the design of feedback control laws need to be rethought and modified to work effectively in the noisy, nonlinear, bandlimited world of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). This paper discusses one approach to a robust, length-scale respecting theory of control based on oscillatory actuation. It includes a brief outline of recent developments in the control of mechanical systems using oscillatory actuation, emphasizing the dependence on characteristic length scales. The principal applications with which we are working are micro-pendulum designs, micro-piston actuators for deformable mirrors as well as micro-valves for the control of fluid-structure boundary layer control.
The proceedings contains 41 papers from the conference on currentdevelopments in opticaldesign and engineering VII. The topics discussed include: laser beams;spherical aberrations;bar code scanners;zoom lenses;mirro...
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The proceedings contains 41 papers from the conference on currentdevelopments in opticaldesign and engineering VII. The topics discussed include: laser beams;spherical aberrations;bar code scanners;zoom lenses;mirror telescopes;linear detector arrays;streak cameras;laser projection displays;video color mixers;optomechanical design;aspherical mirrors;x-ray optics system;optical resins;high-power lasers;birefringence;light reflection;finite element method and mumerical simulation.
The Data Fusion Model maintained by the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) Data Fusion Group is the most widely-used method for categorizing data fusion-related functions. This paper discusses the current effort to...
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The Data Fusion Model maintained by the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) Data Fusion Group is the most widely-used method for categorizing data fusion-related functions. This paper discusses the current effort to revise and expand this model to facilitate the cost-effective development, acquisition, integration and operation of multi-sensor/multi-source systems. Data fusion involves combining information - in the broadest sense - to estimate or predict the state of some aspect of the universe. These may be represented in terms of attributive and relational states. If the job is to estimate the state of a people (or any other sentient beings), it can be useful to include consideration of informational and perceptual stares in addition to the physical state. Developing cost-effective multi-source information systems requires a method for specifying data fusion processing and control functions, interfaces, and associated databases. The lack of common engineering standards for data fusion systems has been a major impediment to integration and re-use of available technology: currentdevelopments do nor lend themselves to objective evaluation, comparison or re-use. This paper reports on proposed revisions and expansions of the JDL Data Fusion model to remedy some of these deficiencies. This involves broadening the functional model and related taxonomy beyond the original military focus, and integrating the Data Fusion Tree Architecture model for system description, design and development.
The objective of this paper is to report the recent developments in lightweight mirror technology at Composite Optics, Incorporated (COI). The developments are a result of the activities being conducted in support of ...
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The objective of this paper is to report the recent developments in lightweight mirror technology at Composite Optics, Incorporated (COI). The developments are a result of the activities being conducted in support of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) Program. The sponsors of these efforts are the NASA Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers. The requirements, design approach, performance, and the technology status for the program are summarized. The emergence of composite materials provides exciting potential for nontraditional, accurate, lightweight, stable, stiff, and high strength mirrors. This evolving technology promises significant improvement in reducing weight, cost and cycle time for future infrared, visible, and x-ray systems. Customers currently embracing composite mirror technology for radiometric use are already reaping substantial system performance benefits. Other customers interested in LIDAR, IR, visible, and grazing incidence x-ray applications are eagerly awaiting successful completion of current technology development and demonstration efforts.
Although there is a mature and continually growing body of knowledge concerning the ways in which the dynamics of fluids and solids depend on characteristic length scales, current theories governing control design do ...
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Although there is a mature and continually growing body of knowledge concerning the ways in which the dynamics of fluids and solids depend on characteristic length scales, current theories governing control design do not take explicit account of length scales. Recent research has demonstrated the need to take such considerations into account in designing control systems for smart materials and smart structures in which the goal is to employ small-scale actuators and sensors with characteristic length scales in the micron to millimeter range. For many applications, sensors and actuators will need to be separated by considerable distances (in terms of characteristic length scales). Closed loop feedback designs in this setting may involve communications delays, and both the communications channels and the sensors themselves will typically be relatively noisy. Hence traditional approaches to the design of feedback control laws need to be rethought and modified to work effectively in the noisy, nonlinear, bandlimited world of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). This paper discusses one approach to a robust, length-scale respecting theory of control based on oscillatory actuation. It includes a brief outline of recent developments in the control of mechanical systems using oscillatory actuation, emphasizing the dependence on characteristic length scales. The principal applications with which we are working are micro-pendulum designs, micro-piston actuators for deformable mirrors as well as micro-valves for the control of fluid-structure boundary layer control.
This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity ...
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This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity fluctuations due to mechanical disturbance, electronic noise) are known to influence the performance of these sensors and this paper summarises an analysis of the effect of such disturbances providing design criteria for the realisation of protection and metering class OCTs. Laboratory trials have shown that the compensation schemes devised reduce vibration errors by 20 to 30 dB and compensate for temperature induced drift to better than 0.1%. Extended engineering evaluation field trials of both OCT and OVT devices within a three phase 132 kV installation have been undertaken over the past two years. Details of these trials are presented to provide an appreciation of the potential difficulties which may be encountered and the benefits which may be derived.
This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity ...
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This paper reports on recent developments within research into optical fibre based voltage and current measurement equipment for metering and protection applications. Several parameters (thermal variations, intensity fluctuations due to mechanical disturbance, electronic noise) are known to influence the performance of these sensors and this paper summarises an analysis of the effect of such disturbances providing design criteria for the realisation of protection and metering class OCTs. Laboratory trials have shown that the compensation schemes devised reduce vibration errors by 20 to 30 dB and compensate for temperature induced drift to better than 0.1%. Extended engineering evaluation field trials of both OCT and OVT devices within a three-phase 132 kV installation have been undertaken over the past two years. Details of these trials are presented to provide an appreciation of the potential difficulties which may be encountered and the benefits which may be derived.
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