Status of the Raven MOAO science demonstrator
| Autor: | Olivier Lardière, Celia Blain, Przemek Lach, Ron Desmarais, Carlos Correia, Jean-Pierre Véran, Darryl Gamroth, Kate Jackson, Reston Nash, David R. Andersen, Meguru Ito, Laurie Pham, Colin Bradley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Wavefront
Calibration unit Computer science Deformable mirrors Laser guide star Wave front sensors Multiobject Multiple source Phase screen Deformable mirror law.invention Telescope law Computer graphics (images) Calibration Ground layer Alignment technique Electric appliances Adaptive optics Spectrograph Simulation |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.926854 |
| Popis: | Raven is a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) scientific demonstrator which will be used on-sky at the Subaru observatory. Raven is currently being built at the University of Victoria AO Lab. In this paper, we present an overview of the final Raven design and then describe lab tests involving prototypes of Raven subsystems. The final design includes three open loop wavefront sensors (WFSs), a laser guide star WFS and two figure/truth WFSs. Two science channels, each containing a deformable mirror (DM), feed light to the Subaru IRCS spectrograph. Central to the Raven MOAO system is a Calibration Unit (CU) which contains multiple sources, a telescope simulator including two rotating phase screens and a ground layer DM that can be used to calibrate and test Raven. We are working with the Raven CU and open loop WFSs to test and validate our open loop calibration and alignment techniques. Adaptive Optics Systems III, July 1-6, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands Series: Proceedings of SPIE |
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