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Marco de la Rosa, J.; Núñez Cagigal, M.; Basden, A.; Tubío, O.; Rosich, J.; Rodríguez-Ramos, L. F.; Montilla, I.; Puga Antolín, M.; L. López, R.; Simoes, R.; Patrón, J.; Reyes, M.; Béjar, V. J. S.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10703, id. 1070376 19 pp. (2018).
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Description
The Gran Telescopio Canarias Adaptive Optics (GTCAO) is a
single-conjugated post-focal system with a Shack Hartmann wavefront
sensor working at visible wavelength and one Deformable Mirror (DM)
conjugated to the pupil. GTCAO does not include a fast tip-tilt mirror
in its optical bench so it relies on the telescope secondary mirror (M2)
to correct low frequency tip-tilt and offload the DM. This paper
describes specific details of the software implementation of the mirror
control for GTCAO, analyses its computational needs, presents the series
of tests performed on the newly designed AO closed loop, and summarises
software optimizations and operating system configurations set in order
to optimise computer performance in the available hardware architecture
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