Figure 9
Long-term stability of the mirror sagitta after applying a large voltage change to the piezo electrodes. For the first ∼11 h, with the mirror operating in open-loop, the sagitta drifted by a few hundred nanometres (blue curve), corresponding to a radius change of ∼100 km. But after activating closed-loop (green curve), the sagitta was quickly stabilized and remained within 0.179 nm r.m.s. over the next ∼9 h. |