Tip-tilt restoration of a segmented optical mirror using a geometric sensor

Abstract

We present a geometric sensor to restore the local tip-tilt in a segmented surface using the Van Dam and Lane algorithm [M. A. van Dam and R. G. Lane, Appl. Opt. 41(26), 5497-5502 (2002)]. The paper also presents an implementation of this algorithm using graphical processing units as specialized hardware. This compute unified device architecture implementation achieves real-time results inside the stability time of the atmosphere for resolutions of up to 1024x1024 pixels. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.