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Proceedings of SPIE | 2008

High-resolution optical modeling of the Thirty Meter Telescope for systematic performance trades

Carl Nissly; Byoung-Joon Seo; Mitchell Troy; George Z. Angeli; John Angione; Ian J. M. Crossfield; Brent Ellerbroek; L. Gilles; Norbert Sigrist

We consider high-resolution optical modeling of the Thirty Meter Telescope for the purpose of error budget and instrumentation trades utilizing the Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems tool. Using this ray-trace and diffraction model we have simulated the TMT optical errors related to multiple effects including segment alignment and phasing, segment surface figures, temperature, and gravity. We have then modeled the effects of each TMT optical error in terms of the Point Source Sensitivity (a multiplicative image plane metric) for a seeing limited case and an adaptive optics corrected case (for the NFIRAOS). This modeling provides the information necessary to rapidly conduct design trades with respect to the planned telescope instrumentation and to optimize the telescope error budget.


Proceedings of SPIE | 2008

Analysis of Normalized Point Source Sensitivity as a performance metric for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Byoung-Joon Seo; Carl Nissly; George Z. Angeli; Brent Ellerbroek; Jerry E. Nelson; Norbert Sigrist; Mitchell Troy

We investigate a new metric, Normalized Point Source Sensitivity (PSSN), for characterizing the seeing limited performance of the Thirty Meter Telescope. As the PSSN metric is directly related to the photometric error of background limited observations, it truly represents the efficiency loss in telescope observing time. The PSSN metric properly accounts for the optical consequences of wavefront spatial frequency distributions due to different error sources, which makes it superior to traditional metrics such as the 80% encircled energy diameter. We analytically show that multiplication of individual PSSN values due to individual errors is a good approximation for the total PSSN when various errors are considered simultaneously. We also numerically confirm this feature for Zernike aberrations, as well as for the numerous error sources considered in the TMT error budget using a ray optics simulator, Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems. We also discuss other pertinent features of the PSSN including its relations to Zernike aberration and RMS wavefront error.


Proceedings of SPIE | 2009

Investigation of Primary Mirror Segment's Residual Errors for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Byoung-Joon Seo; Carl Nissly; George Z. Angeli; Doug MacMynowski; Norbert Sigrist; Mitchell Troy; Eric Williams

The primary mirror segment aberrations after shape corrections with warping harness have been identified as the single largest error term in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) image quality error budget. In order to better understand the likely errors and how they will impact the telescope performance we have performed detailed simulations. We first generated unwarped primary mirror segment surface shapes that met TMT specifications. Then we used the predicted warping harness influence functions and a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor model to determine estimates for the 492 corrected segment surfaces that make up the TMT primary mirror. Surface and control parameters, as well as the number of subapertures were varied to explore the parameter space. The corrected segment shapes were then passed to an optical TMT model built using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems (MACOS) ray-trace simulator. The generated exit pupil wavefront error maps provided RMS wavefront error and image-plane characteristics like the Normalized Point Source Sensitivity (PSSN). The results have been used to optimize the segment shape correction and wavefront sensor designs as well as provide input to the TMT systems engineering error budgets.


Proceedings of SPIE | 2010

Investigation of Thirty Meter Telescope wavefront maintenance using low-order Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors to correct for thermally-induced misalignments

Carl Nissly; Byoung-Joon Seo; Mitchell Troy; George Z. Angeli; Myung K. Cho; Chris Shelton; Norbert Sigrist; Mark J. Sirota

We evaluate how well the performance of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) can be maintained against thermally induced errors during a night of observation. We first demonstrate that using look-up-table style correction for TMT thermal errors is unlikely to meet the required optical performance specifications. Therefore, we primarily investigate the use of a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH WFS) to sense and correct the low spatial frequency errors induced by the dynamic thermal environment. Given a basic SH WFS design, we position single or multiple sensors within the telescope field of view and assess telescope performance using the JPL optical ray tracing tool MACOS for wavefront simulation. Performance for each error source, wavefront sensing configuration, and control scheme is evaluated using wavefront error, plate scale, pupil motion, pointing error, and the Point Source Sensitivity (PSSN) as metrics. This study provides insight into optimizing the active optics control methodology for TMT in conjunction with the Alignment and Phasing System (APS) and primary mirror control system (M1CS).


Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering | 2005

Optical system alignment via optical state estimation using wavefront measurements

Norbert Sigrist; David C. Redding; John Z. Lou; Yan Zhang; Scott A. Basinger

Optical State Estimation provides a framework for both separating errors in test optics from the target system and deducing the state of multiple optics in a telescope beam train using wavefront as well as pre-test component measurements including the knowledge of their level of error. Using this framework, we investigate the feasibility of simplifying the interferometric alignment configuration of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, a large segmented-aperture cryogenic telescope, using a single, static auto-collimating flat instead of six such flats, resulting in a reduced sub-aperture sampling.


Archive | 2008

MACOS Version 3.31

David C. Redding; John Z. Lou; Scott A. Basinger; Norbert Sigrist


Archive | 2013

Advanced Dispersed Fringe Sensing Algorithm for Coarse Phasing Segmented Mirror Telescopes

Joshua A. Spechler; Daniel J. Hoppe; Norbert Sigrist; Fang Shi; Byoung-Joon Seo; Siddarayappa Bikkannavar


Archive | 2012

General MACOS Interface for Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems

Norbert Sigrist; Scott A. Basinger; David C. Redding


Archive | 2012

Dispersed Fringe Sensing Analysis - DFSA

Norbert Sigrist; Fang Shi; David C. Redding; Scott A. Basinger; Catherine M. Ohara; Byoung-Joon Seo; Siddarayappa Bikkannavar; Joshua A. Spechler


Archive | 2008

On-Orbit Multi-Field Wavefront Control with a Kalman Filter

John Z. Lou; Norbert Sigrist; Scott A. Basinger; David C. Redding

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Byoung-Joon Seo

California Institute of Technology

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Carl Nissly

California Institute of Technology

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George Z. Angeli

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

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John Z. Lou

California Institute of Technology

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Mitchell Troy

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Brent Ellerbroek

California Institute of Technology

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Fang Shi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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