Demonstration of a photonic lantern low order wavefront sensor using an adaptive optics testbed

Mark K. Corrigan; Timothy J. Morris; Robert J. Harris; Theodoros Anagnos

doi:10.1117/12.2311336

17 July 2018 Demonstration of a photonic lantern low order wavefront sensor using an adaptive optics testbed

Mark K. Corrigan, Timothy J. Morris, Robert J. Harris, Theodoros Anagnos

Proceedings Volume 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI; 107035H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311336
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate the use of an optimized 5 core photonic lantern (PL) to simultaneously measure tip/tilt errors at the telescope focal plane, while also providing the input to an instrument. By replacing a single mode (SM) fiber with the PL we show that it is possible to stabilize the input PSF to an instrument due to non-common path tip/tilt aberrations in an adaptive optics system. We show the PL in two different regimes, (i) using only the outer cores for tip/tilt measurements while feeding an instrument with the central core and, (ii) using all cores to measure tip/tilt when used in an instrument such as a spectrograph. In simulations our PL displays the ability to retrieve tip/tilt measurements in a linear range of ±55milliarcseconds. At the designed central wavelength of 1.55μm, configuration (i) matches the throughput of an on-axis SM fiber but declines as we move away from this wavelength. In configuration (ii) we make use of the whole multimode input of the PL resulting in a potential increase of overall throughput compared to a SM fiber, while eliminating modal noise.

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Mark K. Corrigan, Timothy J. Morris, Robert J. Harris, and Theodoros Anagnos "Demonstration of a photonic lantern low order wavefront sensor using an adaptive optics testbed", Proc. SPIE 10703, Adaptive Optics Systems VI, 107035H (17 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311336

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