SPHERE: the exoplanet imager for the Very Large Telescope

JL Beuzit, A Vigan, D Mouillet, K Dohlen… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Observations of circumstellar environments that look for the direct signal of exoplanets and
the scattered light from disks have significant instrumental implications. In the past 15 years …

Review of small-angle coronagraphic techniques in the wake of ground-based second-generation adaptive optics systems

D Mawet, L Pueyo, P Lawson… - Space Telescopes …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Small-angle coronagraphy is technically and scientifically appealing because it enables the
use of smaller telescopes, allows covering wider wavelength ranges, and potentially …

First on-sky SCAO validation of full LQG control with vibration mitigation on the CANARY pathfinder

G Sivo, C Kulcsár, JM Conan, HF Raynaud… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Adaptive optics provides real time correction of wavefront disturbances on ground based
telescopes. Optimizing control and performance is a key issue for ever more demanding …

Minimum variance prediction and control for adaptive optics

C Kulcsár, HF Raynaud, C Petit, JM Conan - automatica, 2012 - Elsevier
Adaptive Optics (AO) systems enable to compensate the adverse effects of atmospheric
turbulence on ground-based telescopes' images in real time, using a deformable mirror …

SPHERE eXtreme AO control scheme: final performance assessment and on sky validation of the first auto-tuned LQG based operational system

C Petit, JF Sauvage, T Fusco, A Sevin… - … Optics Systems IV, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetry High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument is an ESO
project aiming at the direct detection of extra-solar planets. SPHERE has been successfully …

High-resolution in-vivo human retinal imaging using full-field OCT with optical stabilization of axial motion

P Mecê, J Scholler, K Groux, C Boccara - Biomedical optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Time-domain full-field OCT (FF-OCT) represents an imaging modality capable of recording
high-speed en-face sections of a sample at a given depth. One of the biggest challenges to …

SAXO: the extreme adaptive optics system of SPHERE (I) system overview and global laboratory performance

JF Sauvage, T Fusco, C Petit, A Costille… - Journal of …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The direct imaging of exoplanet is a leading field of today's astronomy. The photons coming
from the planet carry precious information on the chemical composition of its atmosphere …

Disturbance observer-based control of tip-tilt mirror for mitigating telescope vibrations

T Tang, S Niu, X Chen, B Qi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the ground-based astronomical telescope, the imaging quality is usually affected by tip-tilt
vibrations induced by the telescope structure. Long exposure time of the image sensor is …

On-sky results for adaptive optics control with data-driven models on low-order modes

B Sinquin, L Prengère, C Kulcsár… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dedicated tip–tilt loops are commonly implemented on adaptive optics (AO) systems. In
addition, a number of recent high-performance systems feature tip–tilt controllers that are …

Vibrations in AO control: a short analysis of on-sky data around the world

C Kulcsár, G Sivo, HF Raynaud… - … Optics Systems III, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present in this paper an analysis of several tip-tilt on-sky data registered on adaptive
optics systems installed on different telescopes (Gemini South, William Herschel Telescope …