Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 4, 555(2025)

Optimization of actuator for voice coil deformation mirror with large phase stroke

Jiuba GE1,2, Mingxing LI3, Shasha XU1,2, Chen WANG1,2, Ying ZHOU1,2, Lin YU1,2, Jingjing WU1,2, and Lifa HU1,2、*
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  • 1College of Science,Jiangnan University,Wuxi 214122,China
  • 2Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industry Opto-electronic Engineering and Technology,Wuxi 214122,China
  • 3Xi'an Institute of Applied Optics,Xi'an 710000,China
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    The voice coil deformation mirror, due to its large modulation and lack of hysteresis, is widely used as an adaptive secondary mirror in astronomical telescopes. This paper proposes an optimization method for the voice coil driver used in a 37-element large modulation voice coil deformation mirror, followed by simulation and validation. A dynamic magnetic structure is utilized to derive the theoretical formula for the electromagnetic force of the driver and the relationship between the electromagnetic force and mirror surface strain is briefly discussed. Detailed optimization of the structure is conducted using finite element software. Ultimately, simulation analysis and aberration correction validation of the 37-element voice coil deformation mirror are performed based on the optimization results. The designed voice coil driver has an efficiency of 0.362 N/W1/2, a response speed of 0.3 ms, linearity of 1, and allows for a maximum deformation mirror stroke of 50 μm. Moreover, the designed driver excels in simplicity, miniaturization, low cost, high response speed, linear response, and high efficiency, indicating promising applications in atmospheric turbulence aberration correction, laser weapons, laser communication, and fundus imaging.

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    Jiuba GE, Mingxing LI, Shasha XU, Chen WANG, Ying ZHOU, Lin YU, Jingjing WU, Lifa HU. Optimization of actuator for voice coil deformation mirror with large phase stroke[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2025, 40(4): 555

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    Received: Dec. 4, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 21, 2025

    The Author Email: Lifa HU (hulifa@jiannan.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2024-0339

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