Visible extreme adaptive optics for GMagAO-X with the triple-stage AO architecture (TSAO)

Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Laird M. Close, Olivier Guyon, Alexander Hedglen, Maggie Kautz

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Abstract

The Extremely Large Telescopes will require hundreds of actuators across the pupil for high Strehl in the visible. We envision a triple-stage AO (TSAO) system for GMT/GMagAO-X to achieve this. The first stage is a 4K DM controlled by an IR pyramid wavefront sensor that provides the first order c orrection. The second stage contains the high-order parallel DM of GMagAO-X that has 21000 actuators and contains an interferometric delay line for phasing of each mirror segment. This stage uses a Zernike wavefront sensor for high-order modes and a Holographic Dispersed Fringe Sensor for segment piston control. Finally, the third stage uses a dedicated 3K dm for non-common path aberration control and the coronagraphic wavefront control by using focal plane wavefront sensing and control. The triple stage architecture has been chosen to create simpler decoupled control loops. This work describes the performance of the proposed triple-stage AO architecture for ExAO with GMagAO-X.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdaptive Optics Systems VIII
EditorsLaura Schreiber, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653511
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventAdaptive Optics Systems VIII 2022 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: Jul 17 2022Jul 22 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12185
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceAdaptive Optics Systems VIII 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/17/227/22/22

Keywords

  • Adaptive optics
  • Exoplanets
  • Giant Magellan Telescope
  • Wavefront control
  • Wavefront sensing
  • coronagraphy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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