Subedi, HariJuanola-Parramon, RoserGroff, Tyler2019-10-142019-10-142019-08-12Subedi, Hari; Juanola-Parramon, Roser; Groff, Tyler; Design and Modeling of the Off-Axis Parabolic Deformable (OPD) Mirror Laboratory; NASA Technical Reports Server; https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029123;http://hdl.handle.net/11603/15858SPIE Optics + Photonics; August 11, 2019 - August 15, 2019; San Diego, CA; United StatesCoronagraph-equipped direct imaging missions need an active wavefront control system to cancel out the optical aberrations that degrade the performance of the coronagraphs. A fast steering mirror is used to control Line-of-Sight (LoS) pointing error caused by the telescope jitter. In addition to controlling other low-order aberrations such as astigmatism and coma, high stroke, high actuator density deformable mirrors (DMs) are also used to control the electric field at the required high spatial frequencies. We are designing a testbed to verify a different deformable architecture, where the powered optic in the optical train are controllable and have lower actuator count compared to the existing DMs with flat nominal surfaces. This simplifies the packaging issue for space missions and reduces both cost and risk of having the entire coronagraph instrument's performance depending on one or two high-actuator count DMs. The testbed would also be capable of testing different low-order wavefront sensing algorithms, which focuses in the near-term on a new adaptive Kalman filtering and gradient decent method to estimate the harmonic LoS errors that affect space telescopes. In long run, we would test different machine learning techniques to estimate low-order aberrations and non-linear algorithms for digging the region of high contrast called the dark holes (DH).18 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Public Domain Mark 1.0This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.ABERRATIONACTUATORSALGORITHMSCORONAGRAPHSDEFORMABLE MIRRORSERROR ANALYSISIMAGING TECHNIQUESLINE OF SIGHTMACHINE LEARNINGRISK ASSESSMENTWAVE FRONTSSPACE MISSIONSOPTICSDETECTORSText