Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Aug 1995
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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2534, p. 53-61, Adaptive Optical Systems and Applications, Robert K. Tyson; Robert Q. Fugate; Eds.
Statistics
Applications
Scientific paper
We explore the possibilities and limitations of an adaptively corrected dilute-aperture optical telescope. In such a system a non-redundant pupil geometry is coupled with low degree-of- freedom adaptive optics (AO) to achieve a diffraction-limited imaging capability with high fidelity. We show that such a configuration can operate successfully at optical wavelengths where the problems of point-spread-function (PSF) calibration place significant limitations on conventional adaptive optics. A key component of our system is a suite of interferometric wavefront sensors which guarantees that the system operates in a regime where sensitivity to fluctuations in the seeing is reduced. By operating with a sparse pupil, the total number of active components is minimized, as are difficulties associated with implementing the interferometric wavefront sensors. We plan to demonstrate such a system using the University of Durham ELECTRA AO system in the very near future.
Buscher David F.
Doel Andrew P.
Haniff Christopher A.
Wilson Richard W.
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