Residual wavefront control of segmented mirror telescopes

Sam Ragland; Peter Wizinowich; Maaike van Kooten; Michael Bottom; Ben Calvin; Michael Fitzgerald; Philip Hinz; Rebecca Jensen-Clem; Dimitri Mawet; Eliad Peretz

doi:10.1117/12.2630269

29 August 2022 Residual wavefront control of segmented mirror telescopes

Sam Ragland, Peter Wizinowich, Maaike van Kooten, Michael Bottom, Ben Calvin, Michael Fitzgerald, Philip Hinz, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Dimitri Mawet, Eliad Peretz

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Proceedings Volume 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII; 121850Y (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630269
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

Uncorrected residual wavefront errors limit the ultimate performance of adaptive optics (AO) systems. We present different contributing factors and techniques to estimate and compensate these wavefront errors in the Keck natural guide star (NGS) AO systems. The error terms include low order static and semi-static aberrations from multiple sources, periodic and random segment piston errors, single-segment low order aberrations, wavefront sensor aliasing, vibrations, calibration drifts, and AO-to-telescope offload related errors. We present the design of a new AO subsystem, a residual wavefront controller (rWFC) to monitor the performance of the AO control loops and the image quality of the AO science instruments and apply the necessary changes to the telescope and AO parameters to minimize the residual wavefront errors. The distributed system consists of components at the telescope, AO bench and the science instruments. A few components of this system are already tested as on-demand standalone tools and will be integrated into a high-level graphical user interface (GUI) to operate the system. The software tool will periodically collect AO telemetry data, perform control loop parameter optimization and update AO parameters such as loop gains, centroid gain, etc. In addition, the system will analyze the science data at the end of each exposure and estimate telescope/AO performance when a bright point source is available in the science field. The benefits of reducing or eliminating the residual wavefront errors have broad implications for optical astronomy. Testing these techniques on a segmented telescope will be extremely useful to the teams developing high contrast AO systems for all extremely large telescopes and future segmented space telescopes.

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Sam Ragland, Peter Wizinowich, Maaike van Kooten, Michael Bottom, Ben Calvin, Michael Fitzgerald, Philip Hinz, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Dimitri Mawet, and Eliad Peretz "Residual wavefront control of segmented mirror telescopes", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 121850Y (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630269

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