Optical design of the Big Bear Solar Observatory's multi-conjugate adaptive optics system

Xianyu Zhang; Nicolas Gorceix; Dirk Schmidt; Philip R. Goode; Wenda Cao; Thomas R. Rimmele; Roy Coulter

doi:10.1117/12.2055561

21 July 2014 Optical design of the Big Bear Solar Observatory's multi-conjugate adaptive optics system

Xianyu Zhang, Nicolas Gorceix, Dirk Schmidt, Philip R. Goode, Wenda Cao, Thomas R. Rimmele, Roy Coulter

Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 914850 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055561
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

A multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) system is being built for the world's largest aperture 1.6m solar telescope, New Solar Telescope, at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The BBSO MCAO system employs three deformable mirrors to enlarge the corrected field of view. In order to characterize the MCAO performance with different optical configurations and DM conjugated altitudes, the BBSO MCAO setup also needs to be flexible. In this paper, we present the optical design of the BBSO MCAO system.

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Xianyu Zhang, Nicolas Gorceix, Dirk Schmidt, Philip R. Goode, Wenda Cao, Thomas R. Rimmele, and Roy Coulter "Optical design of the Big Bear Solar Observatory's multi-conjugate adaptive optics system", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 914850 (21 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055561

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