6.5-m MMT laser-guided adaptive optics system: overview and progress report II

J. C. Shelton; Michael Lloyd-Hart; James Roger P. Angel; David G. Sandler

doi:10.1117/12.290140

17 October 1997 6.5-m MMT laser-guided adaptive optics system: overview and progress report II

J. C. Shelton, Michael Lloyd-Hart, James Roger P. Angel, David G. Sandler

Proceedings Volume 3126, Adaptive Optics and Applications; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290140
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We report on the development and testing ofthe adaptive optics system for the 6.5m single-mirror telescope that replaces the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT). This system features an adaptive secondary mirror and other innovations intended to give diffraction-limited infrared imaging with full sky coverage and the ultimate in low optical losses and thermal emissivity. In this paper, we first describe the system from a global perspective and then dwell particularly on the optical features of the system, the science package with integral tip/tilt guiding, and the solid-state sodium guide star laser. Other papers in this conference describe in more detail the innovative 300-actuator adaptive secondary, the control processor architecture and performance, and results from Fasttrac II, the immediate precursor to this system

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J. C. Shelton, Michael Lloyd-Hart, James Roger P. Angel, and David G. Sandler "6.5-m MMT laser-guided adaptive optics system: overview and progress report II", Proc. SPIE 3126, Adaptive Optics and Applications, (17 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.290140

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