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29 August 2022 Laser Guide star wave-front sensor optimisation for AO-assisted instruments on Extremely Large Telescopes
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Abstract
Laser Guide Star wave-front sensing [LGSWFS] is a key element of tomographic Adaptive Optics system. For classical Shack-Hartmann Wave-Front Sensor, necessary trade-offs have to be made between the pupil spatial sampling, the sub-aperture field-of-view and the pixel sampling. For Extremely Large Telescope [ELT] scales, these trade-off are also driven by strong technical constraints, especially concerning the available detectors. We propose a sensitivity analysis, and we explore how these parameters impacts the final performance. We introduce the concept of super resolution, which allows to reduce the pupil sampling and allows proposing potential LGSWFS designs providing the best performance for ELT scales.
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Thierry Fusco, Guido Agapito, Benoît Neichel, Sylvain Oberti, Carlos Correia, Cédric Plantet, Pierre Haguenauer, Felipe Pedreros, Anne Costille, Pierre Jouve, Lorenzo Busoni, Kjetil Dohlen, and Simone Esposito "Laser Guide star wave-front sensor optimisation for AO-assisted instruments on Extremely Large Telescopes", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 121851F (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628917
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Laser guide stars

Large telescopes

Tomography

Adaptive optics

Wavefront sensors

Optical instrument design

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