On the sequence of deformable mirrors in MCAO: findings from an on-sky, closed-loop experiment

Dirk Schmidt; Nicolas Gorceix; Philip Goode

doi:10.1117/12.2563376

14 December 2020 On the sequence of deformable mirrors in MCAO: findings from an on-sky, closed-loop experiment

Dirk Schmidt, Nicolas Gorceix, Philip Goode

Proceedings Volume 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII; 1144842 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563376
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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Abstract

We performed an on-sky MCAO experiment using 4 deformable mirrors (DMs) to analyze the relevance of their sequence to the residual wavefront error. Two DMs were conjugate to 4 and 8 km. The other two DMs were placed in pupil images upstream and downstream of the 4-km and 8-km mirrors. At any time, both high altitude DMs were active but only one pupil DM was active while the other one stayed flat. Firstly, we found that the MCAO control loops using either pupil DM were stable and robust. Dynamic misregistration, which was present for the first pupil DM, was not an immediate problem for the controller. We did not notice an apparent difference when repeatedly switching between the pupil DMs during the operation. A closer analysis of the contrast in the corrected images and AO telemetry indicates an advantage when the pupil correction was applied with the DM that was downstream of the high-altitude DMs. This finding is consistent in several data recorded at different days. The difference, however, is small. A more detailed analysis is probably needed to rule out error sources potentially not considered herein to draw a final conclusion on the optimal sequence of DMs in MCAO and its practical relevance.

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Dirk Schmidt, Nicolas Gorceix, and Philip Goode "On the sequence of deformable mirrors in MCAO: findings from an on-sky, closed-loop experiment", Proc. SPIE 11448, Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 1144842 (14 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563376

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