Analysis of the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station 1-m telescope using annular Zernike polynomials

Sergio R. Restaino; Scott W. Teare; Michael DiVittorio; G. Charmaine Gilbreath; David Mozurkewich

doi:10.1117/1.1598210

1 September 2003 Analysis of the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station 1-m telescope using annular Zernike polynomials

Sergio R. Restaino, Scott W. Teare, Michael DiVittorio, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, David Mozurkewich

Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 9, (September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1598210

The Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station 1-m telescope is evaluated for the addition of adaptive optics capabilities to its instrumentation suite. Zernike decomposition of the optical system based on phase diversity measurements shows that the static optical aberrations are small enough that they will not degrade the performance of the deformable optical element. The analysis makes use of annular pupil Zernike polynomial reconstruction of the wavefront to accommodate the large obscuration in this telescope and compares this with the results from using filled circular Zernike polynomials.

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Sergio R. Restaino, Scott W. Teare, Michael DiVittorio, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, and David Mozurkewich "Analysis of the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station 1-m telescope using annular Zernike polynomials," Optical Engineering 42(9), (1 September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1598210

Published: 1 September 2003

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