Visible and Near-infrared Laboratory Demonstration of a Simplified Pyramid Wavefront Sensor
Abstract
Wavefront sensing and control are important for enabling one of the key advantages of using large apertures, namely higher angular resolution. Pyramid wavefront sensors are becoming commonplace in new instrument designs owing to their superior sensitivity. However, one remaining roadblock to their widespread use is the fabrication of the pyramidal optic. This complex optic is challenging to fabricate due to the pyramid tip, where four planes need to intersect at a single point. Thus far, only a handful of these have been produced due to the low yields and long lead times. To address this, we present an alternative implementation of the pyramid wavefront sensor which relies instead on two roof prisms. Such prisms are easy and inexpensive to source. We demonstrate the successful operation of the roof prism pyramid wavefront sensor on an 8 m class telescope, at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, for the first time using a SAPHIRA HgCdTe detector without modulation for a laboratory demonstration, and elucidate how this sensor can be used more widely on wavefront control test benches and instruments.
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© 2019 The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2018 October 30; accepted 2019 January 25; published 2019 March 14. The development of SCExAO was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Research #23340051, #26220704, and #23103002), the Astrobiology Center of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan, the Mt. Cuba Foundation and the director's contingency fund at Subaru Telescope. F.M.'s work is supported by the ERC award CoG—683029. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. Facilities: Subaru Telescope - , NAOJ. -Attached Files
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 26220704
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 23103002
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan
- Mt. Cuba Foundation
- Subaru Telescope
- 683029
- European Research Council (ERC)
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