Modelling global multi-conjugated adaptive optics

Valentina Viotto; Roberto Ragazzoni; Demetrio Magrin; Maria Bergomi; Marco Dima; Jacopo Farinato; Luca Marafatto; Davide Greggio

doi:10.1117/12.2055859

4 August 2014 Modelling global multi-conjugated adaptive optics

Valentina Viotto, Roberto Ragazzoni, Demetrio Magrin, Maria Bergomi, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato, Luca Marafatto, Davide Greggio

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Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 91486H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055859
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The recently proposed concept of Global MCAO (GMCAO) aims to look for Natural Guide Stars in a very wide technical Field of View (FoV), to increase the overall sky coverage, and deals with the consequent depth of focus reduction introducing numerically a quite-high number of Virtual Deformable Mirrors (VDMs), which are then the starting point for an optimization of the real DMs shapes for the correction of the -smaller- scientific FoV. To translate the GMCAO concept into a real system, a number of parameters requires to be analyzed and optimized, like the number of references and VDMs to be used, the technical FoV size, the spatial samplings, the sensing wavelength. These and some other major choices, like the open loop WFSs concept and design, will then drive the requirements and the performance of the system (e.g. limiting magnitude, linear response, and sensitivity). This paper collects some major results of the on-going study on the feasibility of an Adaptive Optics system for the E-ELT, based on GMCAO, with a particular emphasis on the sky coverage issue. Besides the sensitivity analysis of the optimization of the already mentioned parameters, such a topic involves the implementation of an IDL code simulation tool to estimate the system performance in terms of Strehl Ratio in a 2×2 arcmin FoV, when a variable number of NGSs and VDMs are used. Different technical FoV diameters for the references selection and various constellations can be also compared. This study could be the starting point for a dedicated laboratory testing and, in the future, an on-sky experiment at an 8m telescope with a “scaled down” demonstrator.

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Valentina Viotto, Roberto Ragazzoni, Demetrio Magrin, Maria Bergomi, Marco Dima, Jacopo Farinato, Luca Marafatto, and Davide Greggio "Modelling global multi-conjugated adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91486H (4 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055859

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