MACAO-VLTI adaptive optics systems performance

被引：24

作者：

Arsenault, R ^{[1
]}

Donaldson, R ^{[1
]}

Dupuy, C ^{[1
]}

Fedrigo, E ^{[1
]}

Hubin, N ^{[1
]}

Ivanescu, L ^{[1
]}

Kasper, M ^{[1
]}

Oberti, J ^{[1
]}

Paufique, J ^{[1
]}

Rossi, S ^{[1
]}

Silber, A ^{[1
]}

Delabre, B ^{[1
]}

Lizon, JL ^{[1
]}

Gigan, P ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] ESO, D-85748 Garching, Germany

来源：

ADVANCEMENTS IN ADAPTIVE OPTICS, PTS 1-3 | 2004年 / 5490卷

关键词：

adaptive optics; curvature; bimorph; real-time-computer; piston;

D O I：

10.1117/12.552548

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

In April and August '03 two MACAO-VLTI curvature AO systems were installed on the VLT telescopes unit 2 and 3 in Paranal (Chile). These are 60 element systems using a 150mm bimorph deformable mirror and 60 APD's as WFS detectors. Valuable integration & commissioning experience has been gained during these 2 missions. Several tests have been performed in order to evaluate system performance on the sky. The systems have proven to be extremely robust, performing in a stable fashion in extreme seeing condition (seeing up to 3"). Strehl ratio of 0.65 and residual tilt smaller than 10 mas have been obtained on the sky in 0.8" seeing condition. Weak guide source performance is also excellent with a strehl of 0.26 on a V-16 magnitude star. Several functionalities have been successfully tested including: chopping, off-axis guiding, atmospheric refraction compensation etc. The AO system can be used in a totally automatic fashion with a small overhead: the AO loop can be closed on the target less than 60 sec after star acquisition by the telescope. It includes reading the seeing value given by the site monitor, evaluate the guide star magnitude (cycling through neutral density filters) setting the close-loop AO parameters (system gain and vibrating membrane mirror stroke) including calculation of the command-matrix. The last 2 systems will be installed in August '04 and in the course of 2005.

引用

页码：47 / 58

页数：12

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