Optimizing the transmission of the GRAVITY/VLTI near-infrared wavefront sensor

Pengqian Yang; Stefan Hippler; Casey P. Deen; Armin Böhm; Wolfgang Brandner; Thomas Henning; Armin Huber; Sarah Kendrew; Rainer Lenzen; Ralf-Rainer Rohloff; Constanza Araujo-Hauck; Oliver Pfuhl; Yann Clénet; Jianqiang Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.925920

12 September 2012 Optimizing the transmission of the GRAVITY/VLTI near-infrared wavefront sensor

Pengqian Yang, Stefan Hippler, Casey P. Deen, Armin Böhm, Wolfgang Brandner, Thomas Henning, Armin Huber, Sarah Kendrew, Rainer Lenzen, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Constanza Araujo-Hauck, Oliver Pfuhl, Yann Clénet, Jianqiang Zhu

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Proceedings Volume 8445, Optical and Infrared Interferometry III; 844531 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925920
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The GRAVITY instrument’s adaptive optics system consists of a novel cryogenic near-infrared wavefront sensor to be installed at each of the four unit telescopes of the VLT. Feeding the GRAVITY wavefront sensor with light in the 1.4 - 2.4 micrometer band, while suppressing laser light originating from the GRAVITY metrology system, custom-built optical components are required. Here we report on optical and near-infrared testing of the silicon entrance windows of the wavefront sensor cryostat and other reflective optics used in the warm feeding optics.

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Pengqian Yang, Stefan Hippler, Casey P. Deen, Armin Böhm, Wolfgang Brandner, Thomas Henning, Armin Huber, Sarah Kendrew, Rainer Lenzen, Ralf-Rainer Rohloff, Constanza Araujo-Hauck, Oliver Pfuhl, Yann Clénet, and Jianqiang Zhu "Optimizing the transmission of the GRAVITY/VLTI near-infrared wavefront sensor", Proc. SPIE 8445, Optical and Infrared Interferometry III, 844531 (12 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925920

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