Laser guide star facility for LTAO and GLAO at Subaru telescope

Date

2019

Authors

Mieda, Etsuko
Minowa, Yosuke
d'Orgeville, Celine
Herrald, Nicholas
Tanaka, Yoko
Doi, Yoshiyuki
Ramos, Lucio
Wung, Matthew
Clergeon, Christophe
Ono, Yoshito

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AO4ELT

Abstract

In this paper, we present a laser guide star facility (LGSF) aspect of the upcoming laser tomography adaptive optics (LTAO) and ground layer (GL) AO systems at Subaru Telescope. For the LTAO system, a TOPTICA laser will be split into four beams and launched all together from one center-launched laser launch telescope (LLT). For the GLAO system, we will use one more TOPTICA laser, split each into two, and launch them by four separate LLTs from the center section of the telescope to construct a wide asterism. We expect to install the first TOPTICA laser in a single-beam configuration for single conjugated (SC) AO in 2020, a four-beam configuration for LTAO in 2022, and a wide-asterism configuration for GLAO in 2025.

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Adaptive Optics, Laser Guide Star

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Source

AO4ELT 2019 - Proceedings 6th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes2019

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Conference paper

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Free Access via publisher website

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Restricted until

2099-12-31

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