Optical design of the Big Bear Solar Observatory's multi-conjugate adaptive optics system
Abstract
A multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) system is being built for the world's largest aperture 1.6m solar telescope, New Solar Telescope, at the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The BBSO MCAO system employs three deformable mirrors to enlarge the corrected field of view. In order to characterize the MCAO performance with different optical configurations and DM conjugated altitudes, the BBSO MCAO setup also needs to be flexible. In this paper, we present the optical design of the BBSO MCAO system.
- Publication:
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Adaptive Optics Systems IV
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.2055561
- Bibcode:
- 2014SPIE.9148E..50Z