During the 2012 commissioning of the Gemini MCAO System (GeMS) in Gemini South Observatory, we briefly explored the performance improvement brought by pairing GeMS with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), compared to GMOS in natural seeing mode. GMOS is an instrument sensitive in the visible band with imaging and spectroscopic capabilities, hence pushing MCAO toward the visible, a mode for which it was not specifically designed.
We report in this paper the first results obtained with the GeMS +GMOS pair. Several globular clusters were observed in imaging mode only. We have derived performance in term of FWHM and determined the improvement against natural seeing. We also obtain photometric, relative and absolute astrometric precision for the AO enhanced images. We also studied the influence of the NGS constellation on the photometric performance.
Finally, we also looked at the expected performance of the GeMS+GMOS system once the CCD upgrade, scheduled during 2014, will occur.
A new concept of the fabrication process for glass microlenses (external diameter ED<1 mm, focal length a few millimeters), based on the silicon master mask-less anisotropic wet etching in KOH, vacuum anodic bonding and re-flow of borosilicate glass, followed by the precise wafer-scale polishing and DRIE has been presented. A single spherical microlens as well as an array of spherical microlenses with focal length between 44.8 and 8.6 mm and external diameter 0.35 to 0.985 mm have been repeatable manufactured.
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