Servo control simulations and preliminary laboratory results for GTC adaptive optics with NGS

Núñez Cagigal, Miguel; Marco de la Rosa, Jose; Basden, Alastair; Montilla, Iciar; Tubio Araujo, O.; García-Talavera, Marcos Reyes; Rodríguez Ramos, L. F.; López López, Roberto; Puga Antolín, Marta; Patrón Recio, Jesús; Rosich Minguell, Josefina; Béjar, Victor J. S.; Simoes, Roberto Luís.
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Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10703, id. 107033F 8 pp. (2018).

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2018
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Description
The Gran Telescopio Canarias Adaptive Optics (GTCAO) is a single-conjugated post-focal system with a Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor, and one Deformable Mirror (DM) conjugated to the pupil. The optical design for tip-tilt correction includes two different mirrors, DM and the telescope M2, being M2 also used for off-loading the DM to avoid reaching its stroke limits. This optical configuration is open to different control strategies that have been simulated with Matlab. Later it has also been simulated using Durham Adaptive optics Real-time Controller (DARC) and its AO simulator, DASP. Finally some preliminary laboratory results are presented.
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