List of papers
AO instruments and pathfinders
Invited
Extreme is the new normal: lessons from 8-m ExAO for ELT regular AO
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Gemini South MCAO on-sky results
The TMT Adaptive Optics Program
Talk
Design of the Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics System for the Giant Magellan Telescope
Direct imaging of habitable planets with ELTs
EPICS: XAO coronagraphic imaging of exoplanets with the E-ELT
Getting the most out of mid-IR on the E-ELT with the METIS Adaptive Optics system
GLAO4ELT: trade study and SAM experience
HARMONI - the first light integral field spectrograph for the E-ELT
Integration, tests and laboratory performance of SAXO, the VLT-SPHERE extreme AO system
Laser Tomographic AO system for an Integral Field Spectrograph on the E-ELT : the ATLAS project
NFIRAOS — Multiconjugate AO System for TMT
Novel Adaptive Optics on the Pathway to ELTs: MCAO with LINC-NIRVANA on LBT
On-sky demonstration of focal plane wavefront sensing and quasi-static speckle suppression
Pathfinders to ELT AO at W.M. Keck Observatory
RAVEN, a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics technology and science demonstrator
Poster
A phased approach to commissioning MCAO: Status and plans for the Linc-Nirvana Pathfinder
Active Optics for high contrast imaging:
Super smooth off-axis parabolas for ELTs XAO instruments
CANARY Phase B: the LGS upgrade to the CANARY tomographic MOAO pathfinder
Design of the calibration unit for the MOAO demonstrator Raven
Detailed analysis of the first MOAO results obtained by CANARY at the WHT.
DRAGON, a flexible, visible-light AO testbed
High-order AO in the visible, a particular niche for 4m-class telescopes?
MOAO test bench in Tohoku University
Next generation AO system of Subaru Telescope
Optical Tube Assemblies for the ESO VLT Four Laser Guide Star Facility
Optimal Natural Guide Star Acquisition for the LINC-NIRVANA MCAO system
Optomechanical Design of an MOAO Demonstrator
Predicted sky coverage for the TMT MCAO system NFIRAOS
Slicer based integral-field spectroscopy at the diffraction limit
The Phase A study for the EAGLE instrument on the E-ELT
The SCAO module of the E-ELT adaptive optics imaging camera MICADO
The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO project: an XAO4ELT precursor
Astronomy with AO
Invited
Talk
NFIRAOS High-Contrast Exoplanet Imaging Capabilities
Science Driven AO Performance Metrics
Science Requirements for EAGLE (E-ELT)
Testing the limits of AO: near diffraction limited astronomy in the red optical
The extragalactic heritage of the Layer-Oriented MAD at VLT.
Poster
Wavefront correctors
Talk
Advancement of Piezo-Stack DM technology at CILAS: Example of HODM for KIS Gregor Solar Telescope
Contactless Large Deformable Mirrors: ELT AO corrector technology available now
MEMS Deformable Mirrors in Astronomical AO
Preliminary design status of the M4AU based on piezo-stack technology
Poster
CuRe - A new wavefront reconstruction method for SH-WFS measurements
ELT oriented adaptive optics demonstration bench
Prototype Small Footprint Amplifier for Piezoelectric Deformable Mirrors
Wave-front sensing
Talk
A decadal survey of AO wavefront sensing detector developments in Europe
A pyramid sensor based AO system for Extremely Large Telescopes
Experimental validation of the linearized focal-plane technique (LIFT)
Laboratory results for speckle suppression with a self-coherent camera.
LGS WFS on ELTs I: Wave Front Sensor Design & Analysis
LGS WFS on ELTs II: Impact of the sodium layer fluctuations
Phase correction of segment diffraction for high-contrast imaging
Post-coronagraphic wave-front sensing dedicated to exoplanet detection
Pyramids, layers and no laser guide stars!
Tomographic phase diversity for phase retrieval on wide-field AO systems
Poster
AOLI: Wavefront curvature sensor algorithms and their performance at low photon numbers
Phase-Sorting Interferometry for High-Contrast Imaging with the GMT
Pyramid based locally closed loop wavefront sensor: an optomechanical study.
Sky coverages on ELTs with a reference area much larger than the compensated one
The ARGOS wavefront sensor pnCCD camera for an ELT: characteristics, limitations and applications
Laser guide star systems
Invited
Talk
ARGOS - the Laser Star Adaptive Optics for LBT
Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (GeMS) Laser Guide Star Facility Commissioning Results
Rayleigh scattering, Fratricide effect and spot elongation: first on-sky results with GeMS
The Four-Laser Guide Star Facility (4LGSF) for the ESO VLT Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF)
Poster
DAYTIME OBSERVATIONS WITH ELTs IN THE THERMAL INFRARED USING LASER GUIDE STAR ADAPTIVE OPTICS
ELT LGS-AO: Optimizing the LGS return flux
Opportunities for AO learnt from meterology and microscopy
Variable Curvature Mirrors for ELT Laser Guide Star refocusing systems
AO real-time control
Invited
Talk
A Kaczmarz type iterative reconstructor for Multi Conjugate Adaptive Optics
Experimental comparison of Wide Field AO control schemes using the Homer AO bench.
Identification of system misregistrations during AO-corrected observations
Performance of MCAO on the E-ELT using the Fractal Iterative Method for fast atmospheric tomography
Real-time control developments for the CANARY MOAO instrument at Durham
The Slope-Oriented Hadamard scheme for in-lab or on-sky interaction matrix calibration
Poster
AO Real-time Control Systems for the ELT Era
Disturbance rejection analysis of LQG control for an adaptive optics system
End-To-End performance test of the LINC-NIRVANA Wavefront-Sensor system.
ETKF : Optimal Control Law for the Adaptive Optics of the E-ELT
Global feedforward and glocal feedback control of large deformable mirrors
MOAO LQG control for CANARY: theory and first laboratory results
Optimal woofer tweeter control demonstration
Real time control zonal algorithm for adaptive optical system
Real-sky adaptive optics experiments on optimal control of tip-tilt modes
The effect of the instrument environment on the Altair AO system
Using artificial neural networks (ANN) for open-loop tomography
AO modeling and post-processing
Talk
Aberrations induced by side-projected laser guide stars in laser tomography adaptive optics systems
Achieving High Contrasts Through Speckle Rejection With Slicer Based Integral Field Spectrographs
Analysis of the Improvement in Sky coverage for TMT NFIRAOS
Laser-Guide Star Point-Spread Function Reconstruction for ELTs
Numerical simulations of an Extreme AO system for an ELT
Practical experience with AO PSF reconstruction at the Keck and Gemini telescopes
SPHERE: Confronting in-lab performance with system analysis predictions
Poster
An Iterative Model for Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Deformable Mirrors
Handling a highly structured and spatially variable Point Spread Function in AO images
High-contrast, adaptive-optics simulations for HARMONI
Integrating AO in a performance budget: towards a global system engineering vision
PSF reconstruction for NICI, the high-contrast coronagraphic
imager of GEMINI observatory
Quasi-real-time end-to-end simulations of ELT-scale adaptive optics systems on GPUs
Refined Adaptive Optics simulation with wide field of view for the ELT.
Atmospheric turbulence and other AO disturbances
Invited
Talk
First results on a Cn2 profiler for GeMS
Impact of the Cn² description on Wide Field AO performance
Optical turbulence forecast with non-hydrostatical mesoscale models
Producing Large Synthetic Turbulence Plates using MRF Polishing
Poster
Analysis of Ground Layer Turbulence Profiles at CTIO and Mauna Kea
Cn2 profilometry from Shack-Hartmann data: model and experiment
The vibration compensation system for ARGOS
Vibration characterization and mitigation at the Gemini-South telescope
