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Toward an on-sky ELT-scale sodium LGS wavefront sensing experiment

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The two first light adaptive optics (AO) instruments for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will both rely on several Sodium Laser Guide Stars (LGS). In using this technology, the E-ELT diameter comes with new challenges mainly raised by spot elongation. Before the final design studies of the E-ELT instruments, a Sodium LGS wavefront sensing (WFS) on-sky experiment at this scale is mandatory to provide meaningful spatial and temporal measurement error and performance evaluation. For this purpose, we propose to use CANARY, the Multi-Object AO demonstrator installed at the WHT (4.2m). CANARY is now undergoing a Rayleigh LGS upgrade and also provides natural guide star WFS. It could easily be adapted to the Sodium LGS case. Additionally, a transportable laser system, such as the one developed at ESO, positioned at a varying distance from the WHT could be used to provide off-axis launching (up to 40m), simulating the whole range of spot elongations that will be obtained on the E-ELT. Full scale simulations of a Sodium LGS WFS on the E-ELT have guided us in the definition of the experiment we are proposing. Previous simulation results in the literature have stressed that an estimate of the Sodium profile is necessary to reduce measurement error to an affordable level. Hence parallel Sodium profiling is mandatory in the proposed experiment. In this paper, we present the simulation results as well as the specifications for both the Sodium LGS WFS and profiler to be used on Canary.

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hal-03743716 , version 1 (02-08-2022)

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Damien Gratadour, Gérard Rousset, Éric Gendron, Olivier Fauvarque, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, et al.. Toward an on-sky ELT-scale sodium LGS wavefront sensing experiment. Adaptive Optics Systems III, Jul 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.84473N 1-7, ⟨10.1117/12.925720⟩. ⟨hal-03743716⟩
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