Making a Deformable Mirror

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Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:15 Visit to SCHOTT AG 01:38 Adaptive Optics explained 07:56 DIY deformable mirror design 10:10 About NEG ZERO glass-ceramic 11:40 Building a deformable mirror 14:45 Magneto-motive force and power dissipation 18:54 Interferometric measurement using Wavefront Pro 24:24 Making and mounting the ZERO face sheet 27:15 Measurements on ZERO face sheet 28:58 Extro More information on Wavefront Pro on the website: https://wavefrontpro.com/ Wavefront Pro was developed by Jaco Verster in close cooperation with Chromar Tecnology: https://www.chromar.co.za/products/equipment/ Huygens Optics does not have commercial affiliations with either of these companies. IRTF telescope (NASA/University of Hawaii): https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/ Photo credits: Afshin Darian - Flickr: NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16891979 TNO deformable mirrors: https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/space/ground-based-astronomy/deformable-mirrors/ SCHOTT ZERODUR: https://www.schott.com/en-gb/products/zerodur-p1000269 Since filming on the premises was not permitted this video shows stock footage. A small correction to the maximum diameter of parts that can be processed: this diameter is not 6m, but generally speaking approx. 4.5m. More info on NEG's zero expansion glass named "ZER0": https://www.neg.co.jp/en/products/zero-cte/index.html MMT Arizona (BTW, its not a multiple mirror telescope any more, the current name is now the acronym): https://www.mmto.org/instrument-suite/adaptive-optics-system/ Adaptive optics image of the Giant Magallan Telescope AO system: https://giantmagellan.org/adaptive-secondary-optics/ ESO telescope image from: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/ All music written by JJM Vleggaar and performed by Arno Aerts, John Maasakkers, Matthieu Cleijne, Leon Steuns and Liesbeth de Bakker and Jeroen Vleggaar in 2000. The video contains instrumental versions of: 11:36 Summer in E; 24:23 Floating (abreviated/instruments only); 30:24 More to Light (Trippy Joint Remix). The music is not available online anywhere else "Not a fluke" is a sample taken from a random @lockpickinglawyer video.