Villages: an on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror

Donald Gavel; Scott Severson; Brian Bauman; Daren Dillon; Marco Reinig; Christopher Lockwood; Dave Palmer; Kathleen Morzinski; S. Mark Ammons; Elinor Gates; Bryant Grigsby

doi:10.1117/12.772406

6 February 2008 Villages: an on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror

Donald Gavel, Scott Severson, Brian Bauman, Daren Dillon, Marco Reinig, Christopher Lockwood, Dave Palmer, Kathleen Morzinski, S. Mark Ammons, Elinor Gates, Bryant Grigsby

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Proceedings Volume 6888, MEMS Adaptive Optics II; 688804 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772406
Event: MOEMS-MEMS 2008 Micro and Nanofabrication, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The MEMS-AO/Villages project consists of a series of on-sky experiments that will demonstrate key new technologies for the next generation of adaptive optics systems for large telescopes. One of our first goals is to demonstrate the use of a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) deformable mirror as the wavefront correcting element. The system is mounted the 1-meter Nickel Telescope at the UCO/Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. It uses a 140 element (10 subapertures across) MEMS deformable mirror and is designed to produce diffraction-limited images at wavelengths from 0.5 to 1.0 microns. The system had first light on the telescope in October 2007. Here we report on the results of initial on-sky tests.

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Donald Gavel, Scott Severson, Brian Bauman, Daren Dillon, Marco Reinig, Christopher Lockwood, Dave Palmer, Kathleen Morzinski, S. Mark Ammons, Elinor Gates, and Bryant Grigsby "Villages: an on-sky visible wavelength astronomy AO experiment using a MEMS deformable mirror", Proc. SPIE 6888, MEMS Adaptive Optics II, 688804 (6 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.772406

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