Visible low-order wavefront sensor for the subaru LGSAO system

Makoto Watanabe, Meguru Ito, Shin Oya, Yutaka Hayano, Yosuke Minowa, Masayuki Hattori, Yoshihiko Saito, Sebastian Egner, Hideki Takami, Masanori Iye, Olivier Guyon, Vincent Garrei, Stephen Colley, Taras Golota

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Abstract

The Subaru laser guide star adaptive optics system (A0188) was installed at the Nasmyth focus of the Subaru Telescope on October 2006 and it is in operation with the natural guide star (NGS) mode. The operation of the laser guide star (LGS) mode started on January 2010. A visible low-order wavefront sensor (LOWFS) was built to measure tip-tilt and defocus terms of wavefront by using a single NGS within a 2.7 arcmin diameter field when an LGS is used for high-order wavefront sensing with the 188-element curvature based wavefront sensor. This LOWFS is a 2 x 2 sub-aperture Shack-Hartmann sensor with 16 photon-counting avalanche photodiode (APD) modules. A 4x4-element lenslet array is located after the 2x2 sub-aperture Shack-Hartmann lenslet array and it is coupled with the APD modules through optical fibers. The field of view of the LOWFS is 4 arcsec in diameter. It has own guide star acquisition unit, acquisition and pupil cameras, and atmospheric dispersion corrector. We describe the design, construction, and integration of this low-order wavefront sensor.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdaptive Optics Systems II
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventAdaptive Optics Systems II - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2010Jul 2 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
NumberPART 1
Volume7736
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherAdaptive Optics Systems II
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period6/27/107/2/10

Keywords

  • Adaptive optics
  • Laser guide star
  • Shack-Hartmann sensor
  • Subaru telescope
  • Wavefront sensing

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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