First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'06) Woofer-Tweeter Adaptive Optics Test Bench Istanbul, Turkey June 15-June 18 ISBN: 0-7695-2614-4
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/AHS.2006.78
This paper describes the status of a Woofer-Tweeter (W/T) Adaptive Optics (AO) test bench that is developed at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. The purpose of the UVic W/T AO bench with regards to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project, the description of the W/T AO bench components, the hot air turbulence generator, the working principle and performance estimates from the system model of the W/T AO system are presented. The research concept of having Dual Deformable Mirrors (DM) allows the W/T AO system to have a high degree of correction over a large amplitude wavefront distortion. The role of the UVic AO bench is to demonstrate the closed-loop wavefront control feasibility for a W/T AO concept to be used on the science instruments of the TMT.
Citation:
Onur Keskin, Peter Hampton, Rodolphe Conan, Colin Bradley, Aaron Hilton, Celia Blain, "Woofer-Tweeter Adaptive Optics Test Bench," ahs, pp.74-80, First NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||