Demonstration of portable solar adaptive optics system

Deqing Ren; Bing Dong

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.10.101705

Demonstration of portable solar adaptive optics system

Deqing Ren, Bing Dong

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Abstract

Solar-adaptive optics (AO) are more challenging than nighttime AO, in some aspects. A portable solar adaptive optics (PSAO) system featuring compact physical size, low cost, and good performance has been proposed and developed. PSAO can serve as a visiting instrument for any existing ground-based solar telescope to improve solar image quality by replacing just a few optical components. High-level programming language, LabVIEW, is used to develop the wavefront sensing and control software, and general purpose computers are used to drive the whole system. During October 2011, the feasibility and good performance of PSAO was demonstrated with the 61-cm solar telescope at San Fernando Observatory. The image contrast and resolution are noticeably improved after AO correction.

Original language	English
Article number	101705
Journal	Optical Engineering
Volume	51
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.10.101705
Publication status	Published - Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adaptive optics
Astronomical instrumentation
Solar astronomy

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