Assembly, integration, and verification of MITESI: an optical testbed for simulating the ELT in the laboratory

2026/07/16 by Daniel J Ahrer, M. Concepción Cárdenas Vázquez, Thomas Bertram +5
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Abstract

MITESI is an optical testbed which simulates key characteristics of the ELT, ultimately producing an artificial natural guide star. It was designed primarily to enable testing of the METIS instrument's SCAO system in closed loop. In this contribution, we discuss the assembly, integration and verification process of the testbed, taking the project from design to assembled hardware.

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