NFIRAOS: First facility AO system for the Thirty Meter Telescope

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055525
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. National Science Infrastructure
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Proceedings titleAdaptive Optics Systems IV
Series titleProceedings of SPIE; no. 9148
ConferenceAdaptive Optics Systems IV, June 22-27, 2014
ISSN0277-786X
1996-756X
ISBN9780819496164
Article number914810
SubjectDeformation; Economic and social effects; Laser pulses; Mirrors; Optical telescopes; Telescopes; Adaptive optics systems; Deformable mirrors; High contrast imaging; Real time computing; Thermal background; Thirty Meter Telescope; TMT; Wave-front sensing; Adaptive optics
Abstract
NFIRAOS, the Thirty Meter Telescope's first adaptive optics system is an order 60x60 Multi-Conjugate AO system with two deformable mirrors. Although most observing will use 6 laser guide stars, it also has an NGS-only mode. Uniquely, NFIRAOS is cooled to -30 °C to reduce thermal background. NFIRAOS delivers a 2-arcminute beam to three client instruments, and relies on up to three IR WFSs in each instrument. We present recent work including: robust automated acquisition on these IR WFSs; trade-off studies for a common-size of deformable mirror; real-time computing architectures; simplified designs for high-order NGS-mode wavefront sensing; modest upgrade concepts for high-contrast imaging.
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LanguageEnglish
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