Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 84(2015)

TMT tertiary mirror axis calibration with laser tracker

Qi-chang AN*... Jing-xu ZHANG, Fei YANG and Jing-wei SUN |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
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    To calibrate the tracing performance of the thirty meter telescope (TMT) tertiary mirror, for the special requirement of the TMT, the laser tracker is used to verify the motion. Firstly, the deviation is divided into two parts, namely, the repeatable error and the unrepeatable part. Then, based on the laser tracker, the mearturement and evalutation methods of the rigid body motion for the mirror are established, and the Monte Carol method is used to determine the accuracy of the mothod. Lastly, the mothod is applied to the turn table of a classical telescope and the residual error is about 4 arc second. The work of this paper will guide the next desgin and construction work of the thirty meter telescope tertiary mirror.

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    AN Qi-chang, ZHANG Jing-xu, YANG Fei, SUN Jing-wei. TMT tertiary mirror axis calibration with laser tracker[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(2): 84

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jan. 28, 2015

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Qi-chang AN (anjj@mail.ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-015-5019-9

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