Optimizing multi-LGS WFS AO performance in the context of sodium profile evolution and non-common path aberration

Lianqi Wang; Brent Ellerbroek; Glen Herriot; Jean-Pierre Véran; Corinne Boyer

doi:10.1117/12.2312873

10 July 2018 Optimizing multi-LGS WFS AO performance in the context of sodium profile evolution and non-common path aberration

Lianqi Wang, Brent Ellerbroek, Glen Herriot, Jean-Pierre Véran, Corinne Boyer

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Proceedings Volume 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI; 107032B (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312873
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

For Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) adaptive optics (AO) systems, multiple Sodium Laser Guide Star (LGS) wavefront sensors (WFSs) are required to achieve high sky coverage and diffraction limited performance. However, temporal and spatial variation of the sodium profile causes measurement biases that appear at all time scales and vary between LGS WFSs. To make things worse, optical design residuals, polishing and alignment errors also create non-common-path aberrations (NCPA) that vary between sub-apertures and different WFS, causing LGS WFS to work significantly off null with a nonlinear response. The induced aberrations are consequently non-radially symmetric, even for center launch laser beams with polar coordinate detectors. Natural guide star (NGS) based truth wavefront sensors are often suggested as a method of sensing these LGS WFS aberrations, but a single sensor will suffer strong anisoplanatism that may introduce additional errors. In this paper, we present mitigation strategies and performance estimations based on simulations for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Narrow Field Infrared AO system (NFIRAOS).

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Lianqi Wang, Brent Ellerbroek, Glen Herriot, Jean-Pierre Véran, and Corinne Boyer "Optimizing multi-LGS WFS AO performance in the context of sodium profile evolution and non-common path aberration", Proc. SPIE 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI, 107032B (10 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312873

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