2018/06/27 by J.-B. Le Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Jean-Philippe Berger +37
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Active optics #Adaptive optics #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Advanced optical system design #Artificial intelligence #Astronomy #Computer science #Deformable mirror #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Interferometry #Optical Systems and Laser Technology #Optics #Physics #Piston (optics) #Rotation (mathematics) #Sky #Stars #Telescope #Very Large Telescope #Wavefront #Wavefront sensor #Zernike polynomials #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.10552
arxiv created 2018/06/27 · openalex publication_date 2018/06/27 · arxiv updated 2018/06/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Auxiliary Telescopes will soon be equipped with an adaptive optics system called NAOMI. The corrective optics deformable mirror is the commercial DM241 from ALPAO. Being part of an interferometer operating from visible to mid-infrared, the DMs of NAOMI face several challenges (high level of reliability, open-loop chopping, piston-free control, WFS/DM pupil rotation, high desired bandwidth and stroke). We here describe our extensive characterization of the DMs through measurements and simulations. We summarize the operational scenario we have defined to handle the specific mirror properties. We conclude that the ALPAO DMs have overall excellent properties that fulfill most of the stringent requirements and that deviations from specifications are easily handled. To our knowledge, NAOMI will be the first astronomical system with a command in true Zernike modes (allowing software rotation), and the first astronomical system in which a chopping is performed with the deformable mirror (5'' sky, at 5~Hz).