OCAM2S: an integral shutter ultrafast and low noise wavefront sensor camera for laser guide stars adaptive optics systems

Jean-Luc Gach; Philippe Feautrier; Philippe Balard; Christian Guillaume; Eric Stadler

doi:10.1117/12.2054264

21 July 2014 OCAM2S: an integral shutter ultrafast and low noise wavefront sensor camera for laser guide stars adaptive optics systems

Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Feautrier, Philippe Balard, Christian Guillaume, Eric Stadler

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Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 914819 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054264
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

To date, the OCAM2 system has demonstrated to be the fastest and lowest noise production ready wavefront sensor, achieving 2067 full frames per second with subelectron readout noise. This makes OCAM2 the ideal system for natural as well as continuous wave laser guide star wavefront sensing. In this paper we present the new gated version of OCAM2 named OCAM2-S, using E2V’s CCD219 sensor with integral shutter. This new camera offers the same superb characteristics than OCAM2 both in terms of speed and readout noise but also offers a shutter function that makes the sensor only sensitive to light for very short periods, at will. We will report on gating time and extinction ratio performances of this new camera. This device opens new possibilities for Rayleigh pulsed lasers adaptive optics systems. With a shutter time constant well below 1 microsecond, this camera opens new solutions for pulsed sodium lasers with backscatter suppression or even spot elongation minimization for ELT LGS.

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Jean-Luc Gach, Philippe Feautrier, Philippe Balard, Christian Guillaume, and Eric Stadler "OCAM2S: an integral shutter ultrafast and low noise wavefront sensor camera for laser guide stars adaptive optics systems", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 914819 (21 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054264

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