Analytical vs. end-to-end numerical modeling of adaptive optics systems: comparison between PAOLA and the Software Package CAOS.

Authors

Marcel Carbillet [1] & Laurent Jolissaint [2]

Affiliations

[1] : UMR 6525 H. Fizeau (UNS/CNRS/OCA) [2] : aquilAOptics

Abstract

We compare in this contribution the analytical approach together with the so-called "end-to-end" approach in the framework of astronomical adaptive optics (AO) modeling. The two tools used for this purpose are well-known and already widely used within the astronomical AO community: PAOLA (Jolissaint et al. 2006, Jolissaint 2010) on the one hand, and the Software Package CAOS (Carbillet et al. 2005) on the other hand. In addition to inter-validate the two codes, trade-offs are clearly searched in order to find optimal compromises permitting to face both exploratory simulations and large instrumental projects while combining effectiveness and certainty.


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