Wavefront Sensing and Optomechanical Concepts for Large Telescopes
Key discussion topics:
- Curvature polishing
- Differential abrasive polishing
- Mirror backing structure solutions, including tensegrity
- The microELF
- Machine learning wavefront progress
- Photonic wavefront prospects
- LIOM and SELF Public messaging
- LIOM/IACTec intellectual property policies with outside universities and companies
- Structure and outline for an optomechanics course
- LIOM’s satellite experiment aspirations
- SELF telescope engineering and construction update
- Visit to SELF telescope site
- Making more SELF telescope partner opportunities
- “Live Mirror” and ERC/Lyon partnership
- SURI project partnership
- USSF project partnership
- Company partnerships DiSL and MorphOptic
- University partnerships, University Rochester, Georgia State, Georgia Tech
- Breakthrough partnerships
Workshop Subject Outline:
Review of LIOM activities, milestones, and programs
- Planning and documenting
- Planning a University Curriculum and engaging students in precise optomechanical systems
- LIOM Communication tools
Optics
- Live mirror update and progress
- Curvature polishing update
- Differential abrasive polishing update
- Fizeau optics and PSF engineering
Wavefront Sensing
- Mach-Zehnder update
- Machine learning, supervised
- Machine learning, reinforcement
- Using time-domain wavefront information and real sky data for training
- Photonic wavefront sensing
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