Vibration control for the ARGOS laser launch path

Diethard Peter; Wolfgang Gässler; Jose Borelli; Lothar Barl; S. Rabien

doi:10.1117/12.926042

13 September 2012 Vibration control for the ARGOS laser launch path

Diethard Peter, Wolfgang Gässler, Jose Borelli, Lothar Barl, S. Rabien

Proceedings Volume 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III; 84474J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926042
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Present and future adaptive optics systems aim for the correction of the atmospheric turbulence over a large field of view combined with large sky coverage. To achieve this goal the telescope is equipped with multiple laser beacons. Still, to measure tip-tilt aberrations a natural guide star is used. For some fields such a tilt-star is not available and a correction on the laser beacons alone is applied. For this method to work well the laser beacons must not be affected by telescope vibrations on their up-link path. For the ARGOS system the jitter of the beacons is specified to be below 0.05. To achieve this goal a vibration compensation system is necessary to mitigate the mechanical disturbances. The ARGOS vibration compensation system is an accelerometer based feed forward system. The accelerometer measurements are fed into a real time controller. To achieve high performance the controller of the system is model based. The output is applied to a fast steering mirror. This paper presents the concept of the ARGOS vibration compensation, the hardware, and laboratory results.

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Diethard Peter, Wolfgang Gässler, Jose Borelli, Lothar Barl, and S. Rabien "Vibration control for the ARGOS laser launch path", Proc. SPIE 8447, Adaptive Optics Systems III, 84474J (13 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926042

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