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11 July 2008 Update on the TMT adaptive optics real time controller
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Abstract
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will implement a first light facility Laser Guide Star Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics System, NFIRAOS, which will feed three science instruments on the telescope Nasmyth platform. This system will include two deformable mirrors, six laser guide star wavefront sensors, and multiple tip/tilt/focus wavefront sensors located in the instruments. The Real Time Controller (RTC) is one of the most innovative and essential components of this first light AO system. In this paper, we provide an update on the NFIRAOS RTC overall requirements and challenges, and in particular, on the tomography and fitting wavefront reconstruction algorithms. Several implementations of a minimum variance reconstructor are presented together with their processing and memory requirements.
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C. Boyer, L. Gilles, B. Ellerbroek, G. Herriot, and J. P. Véran "Update on the TMT adaptive optics real time controller", Proc. SPIE 7015, Adaptive Optics Systems, 701531 (11 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787610
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KEYWORDS
Adaptive optics

Real-time computing

Tomography

Wavefront reconstruction

Targeting Task Performance metric

Wavefronts

Actuators

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