Widening the effective field of view of adaptive optics telescopes using deconvolution from wavefront sensing

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Jun 1994

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2198, p. 423-437, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII, David L. Crawford; Eric R. Craine; Eds.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A fundamental problem of adaptive optics systems is the very narrow corrected field-of-view (FOV) which can be obtained due to the fact that turbulence is extended in altitude throughout the atmosphere. The correctable FOV is on the order of 5 to 10 microradians in the visible. Previous concepts to broaden the corrected FOV have been hardware-oriented, requiring multiple wavefront sensors (WFS) and multiple deformable mirrors. In this paper we analyze the average performance of an image measurement and post processing technique which uses simultaneous measurements of a short exposure compensated image measured in an off-axis direction, and an additional WFS measurement taken in the off-axis direction. Results are presented for infinite altitude WFS beacons driving both the WFS for the adaptive optics and the WFS looking in the off-axis direction, a variety of seeing and WFS light level conditions, and off-axis angles from two to six times the isoplanatic angle. We find that this technique provides a significant boost in the average effective transfer function out to at least six times the isoplanatic angle.

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