NFIRAOS adaptive optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope
- Creators
- Crane, Jeffrey
- Herriot, Glen
- Andersen, David
- Atwood, Jenny
- Byrnes, Peter
- Densmore, Adam
- Dunn, Jennifer
- Fitzsimmons, Joeleff
- Hardy, Tim
- Hoff, Brian
- Jackson, Kate
- Kerley, Dan
- Lardiére, Olivier
- Smith, Malcolm
- Stocks, Jonathan
- Véran, Jean-Pierre
- Boyer, Corinne
- Wang, Lianqi
- Trancho, Gelys
- Trubey, Melissa
Abstract
NFIRAOS (Narrow-Field InfraRed Adaptive Optics System) will be the first-light multi-conjugate adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). NFIRAOS houses all of its opto-mechanical sub-systems within an optics enclosure cooled to precisely -30°C in order to improve sensitivity in the near-infrared. It supports up to three client science instruments, including the first-light InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Powering NFIRAOS is a Real Time Controller that will process the signals from six laser wavefront sensors, one natural guide star pyramid WFS, up to three low-order on-instrument WFS and up to four guide windows on the client instrument's science detector in order to correct for atmospheric turbulence, windshake, optical errors and plate-scale distortion. NFIRAOS is currently preparing for its final design review in late June 2018 at NRC Herzberg in Victoria, British Columbia in partnership with Canadian industry and TMT.
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- Eprint ID
- 92178
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20190109-140728303
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2019-01-09Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Thirty Meter Telescope
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 10703