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Opto-mechanical designs for the HARMONI Adaptive Optics systems

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-07-03 v1

Abstract

HARMONI is a visible and near-infrared integral field spectrograph equipped with two complementary adaptive optics systems, fully integrated within the instrument. A Single Conjugate AO (SCAO) system offers high performance for a limited sky coverage and a Laser Tomographic AO (LTAO) system provides AO correction with a very high sky-coverage. While the deformable mirror performing real-time correction of the atmospheric disturbances is located within the telescope itself, the instrument contains a suite of state-of-the-art and innovative wavefront sensor systems. Laser guide star sensors (LGSS) are located at the entrance of the instrument and fed by a dichroic beam splitter, while the various natural guide star sensors for LTAO and SCAO are located close to the science focal plane. We present opto-mechanical architecture and design at PDR level for these wavefront sensor systems.

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@article{arxiv.1807.00073,
  title  = {Opto-mechanical designs for the HARMONI Adaptive Optics systems},
  author = {Kjetil Dohlen and Timothy Morris and Javier Piqueras Lopez and Ariadna Calcines-Rosario and Anne Costille and Marc Dubbeldam and Kacem El Hadi and Thierry Fusco and Marc Llored and Benoit Neichel and Sandrine Pascal and Jean-Francois Sauvage and Pascal Vola and Fraser Clarke and Hermine Schnetler and Ian Bryson and Niranjan Thatte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00073},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 13 figures, conference

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