Abstract:There is an obvious incentive for using bow-free (temperature change insensitive) assemblies in aerospace optoelectronics: elevated bow might lead to the reduction or even to the total loss in the coupling efficiency. A bi-material bi-component assembly cannot be made bow-free: the total bending moment is never zero in such an assembly. To become bow-free, an assembly comprised of dissimilar materials should contain at least three components in order to produce forces that would lead to a zero resultant bendin… Show more
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