Bibcode
Carbillet, Marcel; Vérinaud, Christophe; Esposito, Simone; Riccardi, Armando; Puglisi, Alfio; Femenía, Bruno; Fini, Luca
Bibliographical reference
Adaptive Optical System Technologies II. Edited by Wizinowich, Peter L.; Bonaccini, Domenico. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4839, pp. 131-139 (2003).
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2003
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Description
This presentation reports the numerical simulations we have done in
order to evaluate the performance of the first-light AO system of LBT.
The simulation tool used for this purpose is the Software Package CAOS,
applicable for a wide range of AO systems and for which a brief recall
of the main features is made. The whole process of atmospheric
propagation of light, wavefront sensing (using a complete model of the
pyramid wavefront sensor), wavefront reconstruction using the LBT672
adaptive secondary mirror modes), and closing of the loop, is simulated.
The results are given in terms of obtained Strehl ratios in J-, H-, and
K-band. Estimation of the resulting sky-coverage in K-band for different
regions of the sky are also expressed. A comparison with the performance
that would be obtained by using a Shack-Hartmann sensor is presented,
confirming the gain achievable with the pyramid sensor.