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F.C. Halter (University of Puerto Rico), J.T. Baker (Boeing, Albuquerque, NM), M.P.J.L. Chang, J.F. Friedman (University of Puerto Rico)
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) has three, 30" telescopes currently under construction, which will be located at Fenton Hill, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The telescopes will be interferometrically linked and will be equipped with adaptive optics systems that are low-cost and commercially viable. Thus the adaptive optics system will function to correct for lower-order aberrations in real-time. This talk will discuss the design and results to date of the progressing adaptive optics system, including influence functions of the deformable mirror (DM) and general specifics of the system. The DM under test is an OKO Technologies, micro-machined deformable mirror (MDM) with 37 electrostatic actuators, and the wave front sensor for the system is a Shack-Hartmann consisting of a "Gen IV" image intensified Dalsa CCD camera. The UPR Observatory is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the University of Puerto Rico.