Bibcode
Montilla, I.; Reyes, M.; Femenía, B.; Rodríguez-Ramos, J. M.
Referencia bibliográfica
Adaptive Optics Systems II. Edited by Ellerbroek, Brent L.; Hart, Michael; Hubin, Norbert; Wizinowich, Peter L. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7736, pp. 773641-773641-8 (2010).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2010
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Descripción
Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) will play a key role in future
astronomy. Every Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is being designed with
its MCAO module, and most of their instruments will rely on that kind of
correction for their optimum performance. Many technical challenges have
to be solved in order to develop MCAO systems. One of them, related to
its use on ELT's, is to find fast algorithms to perform the
reconstruction at the required speed. For that reason we have been
studying the application of the Fourier Transform Reconstructor (FTR) to
MCAO. We use the Fourier Slice Theorem in order to reconstruct the
atmospheric volume. The process consists on reconstructing "slices" of
atmosphere, taking 1D-FFT's of the different projections to build a 2D
Fourier space that is inverse-transformed to build the reconstructed
slice. The advantage of using the FTR is that this algorithm gives us
directly the Fourier Transform of the projections, speeding up the
process. To do a good reconstruction it is necessary to know the height
at which the laser guide star is focused, and we propose to use a
plenoptic camera to get this information, that we use together with the
available information relative to the atmosphere we are reconstructing,
C2n, to weight the inverse-transforms and obtain a better
estimate. The height is obtained in real-time, a very important
advantage for the reconstruction. We present the preliminary results of
our MCAO simulations and the configuration of the plenoptic camera that
could be applied to an ELT