End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

C. Arcidiacono; L. Schreiber; G. Bregoli; E. Diolaiti; I. Foppiani; G. Cosentino; M. Lombini; R. C. Butler; P. Ciliegi

doi:10.1117/12.2055608

7 August 2014 End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

C. Arcidiacono, L. Schreiber, G. Bregoli, E. Diolaiti, I. Foppiani, G. Cosentino, M. Lombini, R. C. Butler, P. Ciliegi

Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 91486F (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055608
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

MAORY is the adaptive optics module of the E-ELT that will feed the MICADO imaging camera through a gravity invariant exit port. MAORY has been foreseen to implement MCAO correction through three high order deformable mirrors driven by the reference signals of six Laser Guide Stars (LGSs) feeding as many Shack- Hartmann Wavefront Sensors. A three Natural Guide Stars (NGSs) system will provide the low order correction. We develop a code for the end-to-end simulation of the MAORY adaptive optics (AO) system in order to obtain high-fidelity modeling of the system performance. It is based on the IDL language and makes extensively uses of the GPUs. Here we present the architecture of the simulation tool and its achieved and expected performance.

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C. Arcidiacono, L. Schreiber, G. Bregoli, E. Diolaiti, I. Foppiani, G. Cosentino, M. Lombini, R. C. Butler, and P. Ciliegi "End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91486F (7 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055608

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