Negating effects from sodium profile variations for TMT: the MOR truth wavefront sensor of NFIRAOS

David R. Andersen; Rodolphe Conan; Brent Ellerbroek; Glen Herriot; Jean-Pierre Véran

doi:10.1117/12.789841

15 July 2008 Negating effects from sodium profile variations for TMT: the MOR truth wavefront sensor of NFIRAOS

David R. Andersen, Rodolphe Conan, Brent Ellerbroek, Glen Herriot, Jean-Pierre Véran

Proceedings Volume 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems; 70155V (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789841
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The Moderate Order Radial (MOR) Truth Wavefront Sensor (TWFS) of NFIRAOS, the facility AO system for TMT, is a visible light order 12x12 subaperture Shack-Hartmann WFS. Its role is to sense radial wavefront errors arising from variations in the Sodium layer profile that are not sensed by the on-instrument near infrared tip-tilt focus wavefront sensor at a sampling frequency on the order of one Herz. It works in concert with the High Order Low bandwidth (HOL) TWFS, which will use a 120x120 subaperture Shack-Hartmann WFS that senses slow variations in telescope flexure and the rotation of the pupil. Top-level requirements for NFIRAOS leave little margin for degradation in sky coverage or additional implementation wavefront errors introduced by the operation of the MOR TWFS. In this paper, we explore MOR TWFS design trade studies on the number of subapertures, sampling rate, the width of the MOR TWFS visible bandpass, and the split in light between the MOR and HOL TWFS, and present a design for a system which meets the top level requirements by not degrading the high sky coverage of NFIRAOS (50% sky coverage at the Galactic poles) and rejecting the radial modes with a residual wavefront error of 10nm.

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David R. Andersen, Rodolphe Conan, Brent Ellerbroek, Glen Herriot, and Jean-Pierre Véran "Negating effects from sodium profile variations for TMT: the MOR truth wavefront sensor of NFIRAOS", Proc. SPIE 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems, 70155V (15 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789841

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