• DOI:10.1117/12.2055608
• Corpus ID: 119229065

End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system

@inproceedings{Arcidiacono2014EndTE,
  title={End to end numerical simulations of the MAORY multiconjugate adaptive optics system},
  author={Carmelo Arcidiacono and Laura Schreiber and Giovanni Bregoli and Emiliano Diolaiti and Italo Foppiani and Giuseppe Cosentino and Matteo Lombini and R. C. Butler and Paolo Ciliegi},
  booktitle={Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation},
  year={2014}
}

• C. Arcidiacono, L. Schreiber, +6 authors P. Ciliegi
• Published in
  Astronomical Telescopes and…
  4 August 2014
• Physics

MAORY is the adaptive optics module of the E-ELT that will feed the MICADO imaging camera through a gravity invariant exit port. MAORY has been foreseen to implement MCAO correction through three high order deformable mirrors driven by the reference signals of six Laser Guide Stars (LGSs) feeding as many Shack- Hartmann Wavefront Sensors. A three Natural Guide Stars (NGSs) system will provide the low order correction. We develop a code for the end-to-end simulation of the MAORY adaptive optics (AO) system in order to obtain high-fidelity modeling of the system performance. It is based on the IDL language and makes extensively uses of the GPUs. Here we present the architecture of the simulation tool and its achieved and expected performance.