2nd LIOM International Workshop
Wavefront Sensing and Optomechanical concepts for Large Telescopes
February 14th-16th, 2024
Presentation
Key discussion topics:
1. Curvature polishing
2. Differential abrasive polishing
3. Mirror backing structure solutions, including tensegrity
4. The microELF
5. Machine learning wavefront progress
6. Photonic wavefront prospects
7. LIOM and SELF Public messaging
8. LIOM/IACTec intellectual property policies with outside universities and companies
9. Structure and outline for an optomechanics course
10. LIOM’s satellite experiment aspirations
11. SELF telescope engineering and construction update
12. Visit to SELF telescope site
13. Making more SELF telescope partner opportunities
14. “Live Mirror” and ERC/Lyon partnership
15. SURI project partnership
16. USSF project partnership
17. Company partnerships DiSL, MorphOptic, LightBridges
18. University partnerships, University Rochester, Georgia State, Georgia Tech
19. Breakthrough partnerships
Workshop Subject Outline:
Review of LIOM activities, milestones, and programs
Planning and documenting
Planning a University Curriculum and engaging students in precise optomechanical systems
LIOM Communication tools
Optics
Live mirror update and progress
Curvature polishing update
Differential abrasive polishing update
Fizeau optics and PSF engineering
Wavefront Sensing
Mach-Zehnder update
Machine learning, supervised
Machine learning, reinforcement
Using time-domain wavefront information and real sky data for training
Photonic wavefront sensing