PALMAO bench

The PALMAO optical bench is placed onto the Cassegrain focus of the 200" Hale telescope. The system contains (1) the AO science instrument; (2) the deformable mirror and reimaging optics; (3) the NGS and LGS wavefront sensor units and (4) the STIMULUS calibration unit. Several other systems are included such as the acquisition camera, recently added chopper wheel to name a few.

• PALMAO beam heights: PALAO_beam_heights_0706.pdf - A. Moore 8/02/06
• PALMAO optics conjugate heights: palmao_conjugates_0301.doc - R. Dekany 10/2/06
• Photos of PHARO off the AO bench: pharo_pics_1.zip

• carson_flexure.pdf: Report on NGS non-common path flexure - J. Carson

Chopper

• Chopper testing from July 06 run: chopper_testing.ppt - J. Roberts 8/3/06
• LGS Range Gating with Chopper (design info): LGS_Range_Gating_w_chopper.doc - J. Roberts 8/3/06

AO Bench Mechanical Drawings

AO acquisition camera

High-Order Wavefront Sensor (HOWFS)