System overview of the Multi conjugated Adaptive Optics RelaY for the E-ELT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7736, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Foppiani, Italo ^a,b   Diolaiti, Emiliano ^b   Baruffolo, Andrea ^c   Biliotti, Valdemaro ^d   Bregoli, Giovanni ^b   Cosentino, Giuseppe ^a   Delabre, Bernard ^e   Lombini, Matteo ^b   Marchetti, Enrico ^e   Rossettini, Pierfrancesco ^f   Schreiben, Laura ^a   Tomelleri, Raffaele ^f   Conan, Jean Marc ^g   D'Odorico, Sandro ^e   Hubin, Norbert ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f Tomelleri Srl   (Italy)

^g ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

E ELT; European Extremely Large Telescope; MAORY; MCAO; Multi conjugate adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

E-ELT; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; MAORY; MCAO; MULTICONJUGATE ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STARS; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 77957834152     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858128     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Beckers J. M., "Adaptive optics for astronomy: principles, performance, and applications", Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 31, 13-62(1993).
2. Rigaut F. J., Ellerbroek B. L., Flicker R., "Principles, limitations, and performance of multiconjugate adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 4007, 1022-1031 (2000)
3. Hubin N., "ESO adaptive optics program and status", paper 7736-2 of Conference 7736 at this SPIE Symposium.
4. Diolaiti E., Conan J-M., Foppiani I., Marchetti E., Baruffolo A., Bellazzini M., Ciliegi P., Lombini M., Petit C., Robert C., Schreiber L., Cosentino, G., Biliotti V., Bregoli G., Fusco T., Hubin N., Meimon S., Sauvage J-F.," Conceptual design of the multi-conjugate adaptive optics module for the European Extremely Large Telescope", paper 7736-26 of Conference 7736 at this SPIE Symposium.
5. Diolaiti E., Conan J-M., Foppiani I., Lombini M., Petit C., Robert C., Schreiber L., Ciliegi P., Marchetti E., Bellazzini M., Busoni L., Esposito S., Fusco T., Hubin N., Quiros-Pacheco F., Baruffolo A., D'Odorico S., Farinato J., Neichel B., Ragazzoni R., Arcidiacono C., Biliotti V. , Bregoli G., Cosentino G., Innocenti G., "A preliminary overview of the multiconjugate adaptive optics module for the E-ELT", Proc. SPIE 7015, 701510 (2008).
6. Ellerbroek, B. L., Rigaut F., "Methods for correcting tilt anisoplanatism in laser-guide-star-based multiconjugate adaptive optics", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A Vol. 18 No. 10, 2539-2547 (2001).
7. Davies R. I., "MICADO: the adaptive optics imaging camera for the E-ELT", paper 7735-80 of conference 7735 at this SPIE Symposium.
8. Boceas M., Vucina T., Araya C., Vera E., Ahhee C., "Protected-silver coatings for the 8-m Gemini telescope mirrors", Thin Solid Films 502, 275-280 (2006). (Pubitemid 43290068)
9. Wilson R.N., [Reflecting Telescope Optics II], Springer-Verlag, 332-335 (1999).
10. DATABASE OF TECHNICAL DATA, ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) web site http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/ eelt/science/drm/tech- data/ (2009).
11. Girardi L., Groenewegen M.A.T., Hatziminaoglou E., da Costa L., "Star counts in the Galaxy. Simulating from very deep to very shallow photometric surveys with the TRILEGAL code", Astronomy & Astrophysics 463, 895-915 (2005).
12. Lombini M., Bregoli G., Cosentino G., Schreiber L., Diolaiti E., Foppiani I., "Prototype of a laser guide stars wavefront sensor for E-ELT: design and integration", paper 7736-202 of conference 7736 at this SPIE Symposium.
13. Schreiber L., Lombini M., Foppiani I., Diolaiti E., Robert C., Cosentino G., Bregoli G., Marchetti E., "Prototype of a laser guide stars wavefront sensor for E-ELT: test results", paper 7736-198 of conference 7736 at this SPIE Symposium.
14. Correia C, Petit C., Conan J-M., Raynaud H-F., Kulcsár C., "Adapting optimal LQG methods to ELT-sized AO systems", proc. 1st AO4ELT conference, 07003 (2010)