Is ESO's adaptive optics facility suited for MCAO?

Enrico Marchetti; Paola Amico; Enrico Fedrigo; Andreas Glindemann; Norbert Hubin; Paolo La Penna; Miska Le Louarn; Pierre-Yves Madec

doi:10.1117/12.857999

27 July 2010 Is ESO's adaptive optics facility suited for MCAO?

Enrico Marchetti, Paola Amico, Enrico Fedrigo, Andreas Glindemann, Norbert Hubin, Paolo La Penna, Miska Le Louarn, Pierre-Yves Madec

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Proceedings Volume 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II; 773635 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857999
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

As of 2013, the ESO's VLT will be equipped with the Adaptive Optics Facility for Ground Layer and Laser Tomography adaptive optics assisted imaging and spectroscopy, using a Deformable Secondary Mirror and four Laser Guide Stars. Following the successful experience of the MAD demonstrator, we initiated a speculative study to evaluate the performance gain obtained by implementing a type of Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics correction that benefits from the unique features provided by the AOF. In this paper we present the basic concept and provide a first estimation of the correction performance obtained in the near infrared.

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Enrico Marchetti, Paola Amico, Enrico Fedrigo, Andreas Glindemann, Norbert Hubin, Paolo La Penna, Miska Le Louarn, and Pierre-Yves Madec "Is ESO's adaptive optics facility suited for MCAO?", Proc. SPIE 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II, 773635 (27 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857999

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