Adaptive optics and MCAO for the 4-m European Solar Telescope EST
Abstract
A consortium of more than 20 European solar physics institution from 15 different countries is conducting a design study for a 4 m class solar telescope which shall be situated at the Canary Islands. In this paper we introduce the AO and MCAO design concept for EST. A ground layer deformable mirror is combined with an arrangement of four deformable layer mirrors. A combination of Shack-Hartmann wave front sensors with wide and narrow fields of view is used to control the system and to achieve a corrected field of view of one arcmin.
- Publication:
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Adaptive Optics Systems II
- Pub Date:
- July 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.856851
- Bibcode:
- 2010SPIE.7736E..0US