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Adaptive optics (AO) systems using tomographic estimation of three-dimensional structure of atmospheric turbulence requires vertical atmospheric turbulence profile, which describes turbulence strength as a function of altitude as a prior information. We propose a novel method to reconstruct the profile by applying Multi Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) method to scintillation data obtained by a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SH-WFS). Compared to the traditional MASS, which uses atmospheric scintillation within 4 concentric annular apertures, the new method utilizes scintillation in several hundreds of spatial patterns, which are created by combinations of SH-WFS subapertures. Accuracy of the turbulence profile reconstruction is evaluated with Bayesian inference, and it is confirmed that turbulence profile with more than 10 layers can be reconstructed thanks to the large number of constraints. We demonstrate the new method with a SH-WFS attached to the 50 cm telescope at Tohoku university and confirm that general characteristics of atmospheric turbulence profile is reproduced.
Real-time seeing and outer scale estimation at the location of the focus of a telescope is fundamental for the adaptive optics systems dimensioning and performance prediction, as well as for the operational aspects of instruments. This study attempts
While adaptive optical systems are able to remove moderate wavefront distortions in scintillated optical beams, phase singularities that appear in strongly scintillated beams can severely degrade the performance of such an adaptive optical system. Th
In typical adaptive optics applications, the atmospheric residual turbulence affects the wavefront sensor response decreasing its sensitivity. On the other hand, wavefront sensors are generally calibrated in diffraction limited condition, and, so, th
The precise reconstruction of the turbulent volume is a key point in the development of new-generation Adaptive Optics systems. We propose a new Cn2 profilometry method named CO-SLIDAR (COupled Slope and scIntillation Detection And Ranging), that use
In recent years, detectors with sub-electron readout noise have been used very effectively in astronomical adaptive optics systems. Here, we compare readout noise models for the two key faint flux level detector technologies that are commonly used: E