Adaptive optics for array telescopes using piston-and-tilt wave-front sensing

P. Wizinowich; B. McLeod; M. Lloyd-Hart; J. R.P. Angel; D. Colucci; R. Dekany; D. McCarthy; D. Wittman; I. Scott Fleming

doi:10.1364/AO.31.006036

Adaptive optics for array telescopes using piston-and-tilt wave-front sensing

P. Wizinowich
, B. McLeod
, M. Lloyd-Hart
, J. R.P. Angel
, D. Colucci
, R. Dekany
, D. McCarthy
, D. Wittman
, I. Scott Fleming

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Abstract

A near-infrared adaptive optics system operating at ≅50 Hz has been used to control phase errors adaptively between two mirrors of the Multiple Mirror Telescope by stabilizing the position of the interference fringe in the combined unresolved far-field image. The resultant integrated images have angular resolutions of better than 0.1 arcsec and fringe contrasts of > 0.6. Measurements of wave-front tilt have confirmed the wavelength independence of image motion. These results show that interferometric sensing of phase errors, when combined with a system for sensing the wave-front tilt of the individual telescopes, will provide a means of achieving a stable diffraction-limited focus with segmented telescopes or arrays of telescopes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6036-6046
Number of pages	11
Journal	Applied optics
Volume	31
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.31.006036
State	Published - Oct 1992

Keywords

Adaptive optics
Astronomy
Stellar interferometry
Telescopes
Wave-front sensing

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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