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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.

Laboratory demonstration of an alternative laser guide stars wavefront sensing technique—projected pupil plane pattern (2019)
Journal Article
Yang, H., Bharmal, N., Myers, R., & Younger, E. (2019). Laboratory demonstration of an alternative laser guide stars wavefront sensing technique—projected pupil plane pattern. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 5(2), Article 029002. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jatis.5.2.029002

Adaptive optics (AO) is widely used in optical/near-infrared telescopes to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion, and laser guide stars (LGSs) are commonly used to ease the requirement for a bright, natural reference source close to the scient... Read More about Laboratory demonstration of an alternative laser guide stars wavefront sensing technique—projected pupil plane pattern.

A many-core CPU prototype of an MCAO and LTAO RTC for ELT-scale instruments (2019)
Journal Article
Jenkins, D. R., Basden, A. G., & Myers, R. M. (2019). A many-core CPU prototype of an MCAO and LTAO RTC for ELT-scale instruments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(4), 5142-5152. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz638

We propose a many-core CPU architecture for Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) scale adaptive optics (AO) real-time control (RTC) for the multi-conjugate AO (MCAO) and laser-tomographic AO (LTAO) modes. MCAO and LTAO differ from the more conventional si... Read More about A many-core CPU prototype of an MCAO and LTAO RTC for ELT-scale instruments.

ELT-scale adaptive optics real-time control with the Intel Xeon Phi Many Integrated Core Architecture (2018)
Journal Article
Jenkins, D. R., Basden, A., & Myers, R. M. (2018). ELT-scale adaptive optics real-time control with the Intel Xeon Phi Many Integrated Core Architecture. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(3), 3149-3158. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1310

We propose a solution to the increased computational demands of Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) scale adaptive optics (AO) real-time control with the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL) Many Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture. The computational dema... Read More about ELT-scale adaptive optics real-time control with the Intel Xeon Phi Many Integrated Core Architecture.

Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in high-contrast astronomical adaptive optics with a pupil-modulated point-diffraction interferometer (2018)
Journal Article
Dubost, N., Bharmal, N., & Myers, R. M. (2018). Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in high-contrast astronomical adaptive optics with a pupil-modulated point-diffraction interferometer. Optics Express, 26(9), 11068-11083. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.011068

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. In order to achieve this, a high-sensitivity wavefront sensor... Read More about Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in high-contrast astronomical adaptive optics with a pupil-modulated point-diffraction interferometer.

Projected Pupil Plane Pattern: an alternative LGS wavefront sensing technique (2018)
Journal Article
Yang, H., Bharmal, N. A., & Myers, R. M. (2018). Projected Pupil Plane Pattern: an alternative LGS wavefront sensing technique. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4443-4453. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty926

We have analysed and simulated a novel alternative Laser Guide Star (LGS) configuration termed Projected Pupil Plane Pattern (PPPP), including wavefront sensing and the reconstruction method. A key advantage of this method is that a collimated beam i... Read More about Projected Pupil Plane Pattern: an alternative LGS wavefront sensing technique.

Centroid error compensation method for a star tracker under complex dynamic conditions (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, W., Qin, S., Myers, R., Morris, T., Jiang, G., Zhao, Y., …Dai, D. (2017). Centroid error compensation method for a star tracker under complex dynamic conditions. Optics Express, 25(26), 33559-33574. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.25.033559

The traditional approach of a star tracker for reducing the dynamic error concentrates on a single frame of star images. Through correlating adjacent star images together with their angular relations sensed by a gyroscope unit (GU), the attitude-corr... Read More about Centroid error compensation method for a star tracker under complex dynamic conditions.

Wave-front error breakdown in laser guide star multi-object adaptive optics validated on-sky by CANARY (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, O., Gendron, É., Rousset, G., Gratadour, D., Vidal, F., Morris, T., …Henry, D. (2017). Wave-front error breakdown in laser guide star multi-object adaptive optics validated on-sky by CANARY. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 598, Article A37. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629271

Context. Canary is the multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO) on-sky pathfinder developed in the perspective of multi-object spectrograph on extremely large telescopes (ELTs). In 2013, Canary was operated on-sky at the William Herschel telescope (WHT),... Read More about Wave-front error breakdown in laser guide star multi-object adaptive optics validated on-sky by CANARY.

On-sky demonstration of matched filters for wavefront measurements using ELT-scale elongated laser guide stars (2017)
Journal Article
Basden, A., Bardou, L., Bonaccini-Calia, D., Buey, T., Centrone, M., Chemla, F., …Vidal, F. (2017). On-sky demonstration of matched filters for wavefront measurements using ELT-scale elongated laser guide stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466(4), 5003-5010. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx062

The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependent on the algorithms used within the real-time control system to compute wavefront slope measurements. We demonstrate the use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated... Read More about On-sky demonstration of matched filters for wavefront measurements using ELT-scale elongated laser guide stars.

Preliminary on-sky results of the CANARY experiment with an ELT-elongated sodium LGS (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Bardou, L., Gendron, E., Rousset, G., Gratadour, D., Basden, A. G., Bonaccini, D., …Reyes Garcia-Talavera, M. (2017). Preliminary on-sky results of the CANARY experiment with an ELT-elongated sodium LGS. In Proceedings of the Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 5 (AO4ELT5) : Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 25-30, 2017. https://doi.org/10.26698/ao4elt5.0126

We present on-sky results of wavefront sensing on an elongated LGS. These results are derived from observations made with the multi-object AO demonstrator CANARY on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma. The laser guide star is produced us... Read More about Preliminary on-sky results of the CANARY experiment with an ELT-elongated sodium LGS.