2022 APD Technology Gaps: Prioritization Process and Results
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PCOS COR ExEP Astro2020 technology gaps↗
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Nick Siegler
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Deformable Mirror Technology Roadmap: Architecting A Path to TRL5 for Future Exoplanet Direct Imaging Space Missions
The Deformable Mirror Technology Roadmap (DMTR) is a working group tasked by NASA’s Exoplanet Program Office to study the path to bring deformable mirror (DM) systems to a Technology Readiness Level 5. DMs, and their drive electronics and harnessing, are the critical component of any exoplanet direct imaging coronagraph, and there is no device that exists today which can meet the ambitious performance goals expected for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Here we present progress on surveying the field of DM technologies, defining a first cut set of device requirements, and recommending a development and verification maturation program.
Tyler D. Groff↗