ANALYSIS OF MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS

被引:149
作者
JOHNSTON, DC
WELSH, BM
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology ENG, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, 45433-7765
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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION | 1994年 / 11卷 / 01期
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10.1364/JOSAA.11.000394
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We investigate a method for widening the compensated field of view of an adaptive-optical telescope with multiple deformable mirrors and an array of artificial guide stars. An ensemble of wave-front sensor measurements, made with the individual guide stars in the array, is used to estimate the contribution of a region of the atmosphere to the cumulative phase distortion. Our analysis includes the effects of measurement noise, wave-front-sensor sampling, and reconstruction of the wave front from slope measurements. We performed numerical computations for an atmosphere consisting of two turbulent layers: one at 1% of the guide-star altitude with 90% of the total turbulence strength and one at 10% of the guide-star altitude with the remaining 10% of the total turbulence strength. If we assume that r(0) = 0.15 m and that a photon-limited wave-front sensor detecting 50 photons/r(0)-sized subaperture is used, the results indicate that a 0.9-m-square telescope with a diagonal field of view of similar to 92 mu rad approximate to 19 arcsec can use two deformable mirrors, four laser guide stars, and a natural tilt reference star to achieve an rms residual phase error that is <lambda/7 over its entire field of view.
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页码:394 / 408
页数:15
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