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WIVERN: a laboratory experiment for testing novel laser-based wavefront sensing techniques (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bharmal, N. A., Bramall, D., Calcines Rosario, A. Z., Morris, T. J., Schmoll, J., & Staykov, L. (2022, December). WIVERN: a laboratory experiment for testing novel laser-based wavefront sensing techniques. Presented at Adaptive Optics Systems VIII

WIVERN is a testbed for laboratory experiments in laser-based wavefront sensing. It emulates laser uplink from a 4m telescope with 1.6 arcsec seeing and laser back-scattering from up to 20 km. Currently there are three current wavefront sensing capab... Read More about WIVERN: a laboratory experiment for testing novel laser-based wavefront sensing techniques.

Concept validation of a high dynamic range point-diffraction interferometer for wavefront sensing in adaptive optics (2022)
Journal Article
Dubost, N., Bharmal, N. A., Dubbeldam, M., & Myers, R. M. (2022). Concept validation of a high dynamic range point-diffraction interferometer for wavefront sensing in adaptive optics. Applied Optics, 61(14), 4160-4167. https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.439569

The direct detection and imaging of exoplanets requires the use of high-contrast adaptive optics (AO). In these systems quasi-static aberrations need to be highly corrected and calibrated. To achieve this, the pupil-modulated point-diffraction interf... Read More about Concept validation of a high dynamic range point-diffraction interferometer for wavefront sensing in adaptive optics.