Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Test-bed for Horizontal Propagation

Abstract

Our program for the upgrade of the Naval Prototype Optical Interferometer with large telescopes and adaptive optics has produced a test-bed for the in system evaluation and testing of our MEMs adaptive optics components and system performances. We have already reported in recent publications the basic characteristics of the test-bed. In order to improve the capabilities of such laboratory set-up we have started an upgrade that aims at developing a Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCA) test-bed. This test bed is based on the use of multiple Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators (LCSLMs) for producing different phase screens at different spatial locations within the set-up. Details of this new set-up are presented in another paper in these proceedings. This paper specifically deals with the analytic portion of the MCAO test-bed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531736

Entities

People

  • Christopher C. Wilcox
  • Don M. Payne
  • Freddie Santiago
  • Jonathan R. Andrews
  • Scott W. Teare
  • Sergio R. Restaino
  • Ty Martinez

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Adaptive Optics
  • Compensation
  • Composite Materials
  • Deformable Mirrors
  • Emerging Technology
  • Fresnel Integrals
  • High Altitude
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Mirrors
  • Optics
  • Poisson Equation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Simulations
  • Strehl Ratio
  • Test Beds

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects