Adaptive Optics system of the Evanescent Wave Coronagraph (EvWaCo): optimised phase plate and DM characterisation

Anthony Berdeu; Sitthichat Sukpholtham; Puttiwat Kongkaew; Adithep Kawinkij; Matthew Ridsdill-Smith; Michel Tallon; Éric Thiébaut; Maud Langlois; Mary Angelie Alagao

doi:10.1117/12.2628859

29 August 2022 Adaptive Optics system of the Evanescent Wave Coronagraph (EvWaCo): optimised phase plate and DM characterisation

Anthony Berdeu, Sitthichat Sukpholtham, Puttiwat Kongkaew, Adithep Kawinkij, Matthew Ridsdill-Smith, Michel Tallon, Éric Thiébaut, Maud Langlois, Mary Angelie Alagao

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Proceedings Volume 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII; 1218570 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628859
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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The Evanescent Wave Coronagraph (EvWaCo) is an achromatic coronagraph mask with adjustable size over the spectral domain [600nm, 900nm] that will be installed at the Thai National Observatory. We present in this work the development of a bench to characterise its Extreme Adaptive Optics system (XAO) comprising a DM192 ALPAO deformable mirror (DM) and a 15x15 Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SH-WFS). In this bench, the turbulence is simulated using a rotating phase plate in a pupil plane. In general, such components are designed using a randomly generated phase screen. Such single realisation does not necessarily provide the wanted structure function. We present a solution to design the printed pattern to ensure that the beam sees a strict and controlled Kolmogorov statistics with the correct 2D structure function. This is essential to control the experimental conditions in order to compare the bench results with the numerical simulations and predictions. This bench is further used to deeply characterise the full 27 mm pupil of the ALPAO DM using a 54x54 ALPAO SH-WFS. We measure the average shape of its influence functions as well as the influence function of each single actuator to study their dispersion. We study the linearity of the actuator amplitude with the command as well as the linearity of the influence function profile. We also study the actuator offsets as well as the membrane shape at 0-command. This knowledge is critical to get a forward model of the DM for the XAO control loop.

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Anthony Berdeu, Sitthichat Sukpholtham, Puttiwat Kongkaew, Adithep Kawinkij, Matthew Ridsdill-Smith, Michel Tallon, Éric Thiébaut, Maud Langlois, and Mary Angelie Alagao "Adaptive Optics system of the Evanescent Wave Coronagraph (EvWaCo): optimised phase plate and DM characterisation", Proc. SPIE 12185, Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 1218570 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628859

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