ADAPTATIVE OPTICS

PEPR FLEXSIMIRROR / ORIGINS

Keywords: 
ADAPTATIVE OPTICS
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Origins, from planets to life - technological, societal and epistemic breakthroughs
Project Leader: 
CNRS
INSA’s scientific leader: 
Jean-Fabien CAPSAL

Adaptative Optics (AO) requires fast and precise wavefront control using deformable optical surface (DM) with a large number of actuators. Current commercial DM technologies are efficient but still suffer from limitations in their temporal bandwidth, dynamical range, size, number of actuators, fragility/fatigue, and non-linear effects that need to be overcome for future instruments. Moreover, these DMs have unperfect shape at rest and are costly. We aim to develop a new hybrid high-speed, lightweight, large and low-cost deformable-mirror technology.

INSA Challenge: 
Environnement : Milieux naturels, Industriels et Urbains
Partners: 
CNRS
MINES ST ETIENNE
Funding Institution: 
PIA ANR
Dates - Duration: 
2023-03-01 00:00:00 to 2029-02-01 00:00:00
Funding: 
2331000
Contact: 
jean-fabien.capsal@insa-lyon.fr
Chapo: 
Adaptive optics requires a paradigm shift in order to design low-cost active systems that can be deployed over large areas.