Experience with wavefront sensor and deformable mirror interfaces for wide-field adaptive optics systems
Abstract
Recent advances in adaptive optics (AO) have led to the implementation of wide field-of-view AO systems. A number of wide-field AO systems are also planned for the forthcoming Extremely Large Telescopes. Such systems have multiple wavefront sensors of different types, and usually multiple deformable mirrors (DMs). Here, we report on our experience integrating cameras and DMs with the real-time control systems of two wide-field AO systems. These are CANARY, which has been operating on-sky since 2010, and DRAGON, which is a laboratory adaptive optics real-time demonstrator instrument. We detail the issues and difficulties that arose, along with the solutions we developed. We also provide recommendations for consideration when developing future wide-field AO systems.
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@article{arxiv.1603.07527,
title = {Experience with wavefront sensor and deformable mirror interfaces for wide-field adaptive optics systems},
author = {A. G. Basden and D. Atkinson and N. A. Bharmal and U. Bitenc and M. Brangier and T. Buey and T. Butterley and D. Cano and F. Chemla and P. Clark and M. Cohen and J. -M. Conan and F. J. de Cos and C. Dickson and N. A. Dipper and C. N. Dunlop and P. Feautrier and T. Fusco and J. L. Gach and E. Gendron and D. Geng and S. J. Goodsell and D. Gratadour and A. H. Greenaway and A. Guesalaga and C. D. Guzman and D. Henry and D. Holck and Z. Hubert and J. M. Huet and A. Kellerer and C. Kulcsar and P. Laporte and B. Le Roux and N. Looker and A. J. Longmore and M. Marteaud and O. Martin and S. Meimon and C. Morel and T. J. Morris and R. M. Myers and J. Osborn and D. Perret and C. Petit and H. Raynaud and A. P. Reeves and G. Rousset and F. Sanchez Lasheras and M. Sanchez Rodriguez and J. D. Santos and A. Sevin and G. Sivo and E. Stadler and B. Stobie and G. Talbot and S. Todd and F. Vidal and E. J. Younger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07527},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in MNRAS