Key wavefront sensors features for laser-assisted tomographic adaptive optics systems on the Extremely Large Telescope

T Fusco, G Agapito, B Neichel, S Oberti… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Laser guide star (LGS) wave-front sensing (LGSWFS) is a key element of tomographic
adaptive optics system. However, when considering Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) …

Evaluating the performance of an Ingot wavefront sensor for the ELT: good news from simulations

E Portaluri, V Viotto, R Ragazzoni… - … Optics Systems VII, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
As the new generation of telescopes is coming soon, we need to solve or improve some
issues related to the adaptive optics techniques, necessary to fully exploit their extraordinary …

The Ingot WFS on an ELT-like telescope: the project and simulations

E Portaluri, S Di Filippo, V Viotto… - … Optics Systems VIII, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Ingot WFS represents an innovative and indispensable class of sensors conceived to
overcome some limitations due to the LGSs geometry, which is significantly different from the …

An Ingot-like class of WaveFront Sensors for Laser Guide Stars

R Ragazzoni, E Portaluri, D Greggio, M Dima… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Full sky coverage adaptive optics (AO) on extremely large telescopes requires the
adoption of several laser guide stars as references. With such large apertures, the apparent …

Laboratory testing of the Ingot WFS

S Di Filippo, D Greggio, M Bergomi… - … Optics Systems VIII, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The ingot WFS is a new kind of wavefront sensor specifically designed to deal with the
elongation of LGS reference sources on ELT-class telescopes. Like the pyramid, it belongs …

Pupil plane WFSs for LGS systems of giant telescopes: the case of Ingot

E Portaluri, R Ragazzoni, D Greggio… - … Optics Systems IX, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Ingot WFS belongs to a class of pupil-plane WFSs designed to address the challenges
posed by Sodium Laser Guide Stars, and consists of a combination of refractive and …

New developments on the Ingot WFS laboratory testing

TSG Machado, S Di Filippo… - … Optics Systems IX, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Ingot WFS was designed to overcome some of the challenges present in classical
wavefront sensors when they deal with sodium LGSs. This innovative sensor works by …

Twenty-eight and counting

R Ragazzoni - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.09850, 2023 - arxiv.org
After 28 years from the conception of the pyramid WFS several new kind of devices able to
convert wavefront shape into some sort of different illumination on a detector have been …

[PDF][PDF] The Ingot Wavefront Sensor: Updates from the laboratory test bench

TSG Machado, S Di Filippo, M Bergomi… - Adaptive Optics for …, 2023 - hal.science
ABSTRACT Sodium LGS let Adaptive Optics (AO) systems dramatically increase the sky
coverage, but at the same time, they suffer from some limitations imposed by their natural …

[PDF][PDF] A pupil-plane LGS wavefront sensor for the next-generation telescopes: the Ingot WFS

E Portaluri, KR Santhakumari, R Ragazzoni… - Adaptive Optics for …, 2023 - hal.science
We present a well-known concept of pupil-plane WFS, proposed 20 years ago, but
developed recently to cope with some typical limitations and problems of using LGS …