Update on the TMT adaptive optics real time controller

C. Boyer; L. Gilles; B. Ellerbroek; G. Herriot; J. P. Véran

doi:10.1117/12.787610

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11 July 2008 Update on the TMT adaptive optics real time controller

C. Boyer, L. Gilles, B. Ellerbroek, G. Herriot, J. P. Véran

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Proceedings Volume 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems; 701531 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787610
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will implement a first light facility Laser Guide Star Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics System, NFIRAOS, which will feed three science instruments on the telescope Nasmyth platform. This system will include two deformable mirrors, six laser guide star wavefront sensors, and multiple tip/tilt/focus wavefront sensors located in the instruments. The Real Time Controller (RTC) is one of the most innovative and essential components of this first light AO system. In this paper, we provide an update on the NFIRAOS RTC overall requirements and challenges, and in particular, on the tomography and fitting wavefront reconstruction algorithms. Several implementations of a minimum variance reconstructor are presented together with their processing and memory requirements.

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C. Boyer, L. Gilles, B. Ellerbroek, G. Herriot, and J. P. Véran "Update on the TMT adaptive optics real time controller", Proc. SPIE 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems, 701531 (11 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787610

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