Alignment of three mirror anastigmat telescopes using a multilayered stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm
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| author | Blomquist, Solvay Choi, Heejoo Kang, Hyukmo Derby, Kevin Nicolas, Pierre Douglas, Ewan S. Kim, Daewook |
| author_facet | Blomquist, Solvay Choi, Heejoo Kang, Hyukmo Derby, Kevin Nicolas, Pierre Douglas, Ewan S. Kim, Daewook |
| contents | When a telescope doesn't reach a reasonable point spread function on the detector or detectable wavefront quality after initial assembly, a coarse phase alignment on-sky is crucial. Before utilizing a closed loop adaptive optics system, the observatory needs a strategy to actively align the telescope sufficiently for fine wavefront sensing. This paper presents a method of early-stage alignment using a stochastic parallel-gradient-descent (SPGD) algorithm which performs random perturbations to the optics of a three mirror anastigmat telescope design. The SPGD algorithm will drive the telescope until the wavefront error is below the acceptable range of the fine adaptive optics system to hand the telescope over. The focused spot size over the field of view is adopted as a feed parameter to the SPGD algorithm and wavefront peak-to-valley error values are monitored to directly compare our mechanical capabilities to our alignment goal of diffraction limited imaging and fine wavefront sensing. |
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| spellingShingle | Alignment of three mirror anastigmat telescopes using a multilayered stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm Blomquist, Solvay Choi, Heejoo Kang, Hyukmo Derby, Kevin Nicolas, Pierre Douglas, Ewan S. Kim, Daewook Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics When a telescope doesn't reach a reasonable point spread function on the detector or detectable wavefront quality after initial assembly, a coarse phase alignment on-sky is crucial. Before utilizing a closed loop adaptive optics system, the observatory needs a strategy to actively align the telescope sufficiently for fine wavefront sensing. This paper presents a method of early-stage alignment using a stochastic parallel-gradient-descent (SPGD) algorithm which performs random perturbations to the optics of a three mirror anastigmat telescope design. The SPGD algorithm will drive the telescope until the wavefront error is below the acceptable range of the fine adaptive optics system to hand the telescope over. The focused spot size over the field of view is adopted as a feed parameter to the SPGD algorithm and wavefront peak-to-valley error values are monitored to directly compare our mechanical capabilities to our alignment goal of diffraction limited imaging and fine wavefront sensing. |
| title | Alignment of three mirror anastigmat telescopes using a multilayered stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04640 |