Various wavefront sensing and control developments on the Santa Cruz Extreme AO Laboratory (SEAL) testbed

Benjamin L. Gerard; Javier Perez-Soto; Vincent Chambouleyron; Maaike A. M. van Kooten; Daren Dillon; Sylvain Cetre; Rebecca Jensen-Clem; Qiang Fu; Hadi Amata; Wolfgang Heidrich

doi:10.1117/12.2630519

29 August 2022 Various wavefront sensing and control developments on the Santa Cruz Extreme AO Laboratory (SEAL) testbed

Benjamin L. Gerard, Javier Perez-Soto, Vincent Chambouleyron, Maaike A. M. van Kooten, Daren Dillon, Sylvain Cetre, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, Wolfgang Heidrich

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Proceedings Volume 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII; 121852H (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630519
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Ground-based high contrast imaging (HCI) and extreme adaptive optics (AO) technologies have advanced to the point of enabling direct detections of gas-giant exoplanets orbiting beyond the snow lines around nearby young star systems. However, leftover wavefront errors using current HCI and AO technologies, realized as “speckles” in the coronagraphic science image, still limit HCI instrument sensitivities to detecting and characterizing lowermass, closer-in, and/or older/colder exoplanetary systems. Improving the performance of AO wavefront sensors (WFSs) and control techniques is critical to improving such HCI instrument sensitivity. Here we present three different ongoing wavefront sensing and control project developments on the Santa cruz Extreme AO Laboratory (SEAL) testbed: (1) “multi-WFS single congugate AO (SCAO)” using the Fast Atmospheric Self-coherent camera (SCC) Technique (FAST) and a Shack Hartmann WFS, (2) pupil chopping for focal plane wavefront sensing, first with an external amplitude modulator and then with the DM as a phase-only modulator, and (3) a laboratory demonstration of enhanced linearity with the non-modulated bright Pyramid WFS (PWFS) compared to the regular PWFS. All three topics share a common theme of multi-WFS SCAO and/or second stage AO, presenting opportunities and applications to further investigate these techniques in the future.

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Benjamin L. Gerard, Javier Perez-Soto, Vincent Chambouleyron, Maaike A. M. van Kooten, Daren Dillon, Sylvain Cetre, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Qiang Fu, Hadi Amata, and Wolfgang Heidrich "Various wavefront sensing and control developments on the Santa Cruz Extreme AO Laboratory (SEAL) testbed", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 121852H (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630519

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