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2010
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Article Number | 05006 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Wave front sensing | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ao4elt/201005006 | |
Published online | 24 February 2010 |
Sensing Quasi-Static Aberrations of Adaptive Optics Systems On-Line with Long-Exposure Phase Diversity
1
Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), Optics
Department, BP 72,
F-92322
Chatillon cedex, France
2
Groupement d’Interet Scientifique PHASE (Partenariat Haute resolution Angulaire
Sol Espace) between ONERA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS and Universite Paris
Diderot
3
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, 5
place Jules Janssen, 92195
Meudon, France.
a e-mail: mugnier@onera.fr
We validate by simulations an extension of the phase diversity technique that uses long exposure adaptive optics corrected images for sensing quasi-static aberrations during the scientific observation, in particul ar for high-contrast imaging. The principle of the method is that, for a sufficiently long exposure time, the residual turbulence is averaged into a convolutive component of the image and that phase diversity estimates the sole static aberrations of interest. The advantages of such a pro cedure, compared to the processing of short- exposure image pairs, are that the separation between static aberrat ions and turbulence-induced ones is performed by the long-exposure itself and not numerically, that only one image pair must be processed, that the estimation benefits from the high SNR of long-exposure images, and that only the static aberrations of interest are to be estimated. Long-exposure phase diversity can also be used as a phasing sensor for a segmented aperture telescope. Thus, it may be particularly useful for future planet finder projects such as EPICS on the European ELT.
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