Chromatic anisoplanatism in adaptive optics

Nicholas Devaney; Bruno Femenía-Castellá

doi:10.1117/12.3020056

27 August 2024 Chromatic anisoplanatism in adaptive optics

Nicholas Devaney, Bruno Femenía-Castellá

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Proceedings Volume 13097, Adaptive Optics Systems IX; 130970O (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020056
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

Chromatic effects can seriously limit Adaptive Optics performance when a telescope is used at large zenith angles, either because of the wavelength range being corrected or because the laser guide star (LGS) is at a different wavelength to the science observation. There are two types of Refractive effect - the first is due to the fact that the refractive index of air depends on wavelength, giving rise to different wavelengths having not having the same path length. The second, referred to here as chromatic anisoplanatism, is due to the fact that bending of light due to atmospheric refraction causes rays of different wavelengths to take different paths through the turbulence. In this article we consider chromatic anisoplanatism in more detail, and extend the analysis to consider a spherical rather than a planar atmosphere model. As a particular case we investigate the effect for the ESO Extremely Large Telescope, employing a layered model for the turbulence above the ELT site at Cerro Armazones.

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Nicholas Devaney and Bruno Femenía-Castellá "Chromatic anisoplanatism in adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 13097, Adaptive Optics Systems IX, 130970O (27 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020056

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