An advanced SCAO control concept based on mechanical mirror modes for METIS

Philip L. Neureuther; Thomas Bertram; Oliver Sawodny

doi:10.1117/12.2560623

13 December 2020 An advanced SCAO control concept based on mechanical mirror modes for METIS

Philip L. Neureuther, Thomas Bertram, Oliver Sawodny

Proceedings Volume 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII; 1144829 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560623
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) enables high-resolution spectroscopic and coronagraphic imaging in the wavelength range 3 . . . 13 μm. To obtain diffraction-limited measurements, METIS uses a single conjugate adaptive optics (SCAO) system comprising the deformable mirror M4, the tip-tilt mirror M5, and an infrared pyramid wavefront sensor. Due the non-negligible spatio-temporal dynamics and the redundant tip-tilt corrections of M4 and M5, the development of suitable SCAO controllers for METIS is nontrivial. Therefore, we present an advanced model-based SCAO controller. This controller is based on the mechanical modes of the correcting mirrors and considers stroke constraints of the mirrors to prevent windup phenomena. Moreover, the presented controller is fully compatible with the latest Instrument-ELT-Interface and offers several advantages, such as: it can be easily reconfigured to compensate faulty mirror actuators; its controller design can be fully customized to the dynamics of the correcting mirrors. Furthermore, the proposed control concept promises an advanced wavefront correction despite the challenging characteristics of the METIS-SCAO system. Finally, we investigate the presented controller by end-to-end simulations.

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Philip L. Neureuther, Thomas Bertram, and Oliver Sawodny "An advanced SCAO control concept based on mechanical mirror modes for METIS", Proc. SPIE 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 1144829 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560623

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