Wavefront sensing and control in the VLT/ELT era, 3rd edition

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Turing (Paris)

Amphithéâtre Turing

Paris

Université Paris Diderot Bâtiment Sophie Germain, niveau -1 8 place Aurélie Nemours - 75013 Paris
Caroline Kulcsar (Institut d'Optique Graduate School), Gerard Rousset
Description

 

Wavefront sensing (WFS) and control are at the heart of Adaptive Optics (AO) and often dictate the performance. Various challenges are raised by the astrophysics programs like the characterization of exoplanets, the study of the stellar populations or the observation of the very first galaxies, for instance. For such programs, the requirements are to sense and control the wave-front in wide field of view, to combine natural and laser guide stars, to hunt for high sensitivity or high dynamics.

After the two first editions of the workshop on Wavefront sensing in the VLT/ELT era held in Marseille in October 2016 and in Padova in October 2017, we organized the third edition in collaboration between Observatoire de Paris and Institut d'Optique Graduate School, and with a broaden scope to include AO control topics. It was held in Paris from the 22nd to the 24th of October 2018.

The different sessions of the workshop were:

  • Laser guide star wavefront sensing

  • Pyramid wave-front sensor

  • Wave-front sensing techniques

  • Non common path aberrations

  • Phase reconstruction and predictive control

  • Wave-front error and performance evaluation

  • Tip-tilt and vibration control

  • Wide field adaptive optics

  • High contrast imaging adaptive optics

  • In the laboratory

  • Instruments for today and tomorrow

The workshop was a great success with 82 registered participants. 41 talks, including 2 invited ones from V. Viotto and B. Sedghi, have been given covering the aforementioned sessions.

 

Participants
  • Alberto Rigamonti
  • Anas AL-Maothani
  • Andreas Obereder
  • Arielle Bertrou
  • Axel Potier
  • Babak Sedghi
  • Baptiste Sinquin
  • Benoit Neichel
  • Bertrand Charlet
  • Carlos Correia
  • Caroline Kulcsar
  • Cedric Plantet
  • Cedric, Taïssir Heritier
  • Daniele Vassallo
  • Elisa Portaluri
  • Eric Gendron
  • Fabrice Vidal
  • Fernando Pedichini
  • Florian Ferreira
  • Francois Rigaut
  • François Wildi
  • Gaetano Sivo
  • Garima Singh
  • Gerard Rousset
  • Gil Moretto
  • Gilles Orban de Xivry
  • Guillaume Dovillaire
  • Henri-François Raynaud
  • Huizhe Yang
  • Icíar Montilla
  • Iuliia Shatokhina
  • Iva Laginja
  • Jacopo Farinato
  • Jacques-Robert Delorme
  • Jamie Soon
  • Jean-Marc Conan
  • Jesse Cranney
  • Laura Schreiber
  • Laure Catala
  • Lauren Schatz
  • Laurent Mugnier
  • Lisa Bardou
  • Léonard Prengère
  • Léonardo Blanco
  • Maria Bergomi
  • Markus Kasper
  • Martin Glück
  • Massimiliano Mattioli
  • Mathieu Cohen
  • Maud Langlois
  • Nathalie Provost
  • Nelly Cerpa
  • Nicolas Dubost
  • Noah Schwartz
  • Nolan Chan
  • Olivier Absil
  • Olivier Herscovici-Schiller
  • Pascal Jagourel
  • Paul Hirst
  • Philip Neureuther
  • Pierre Janin-Potiron
  • Prashant Pathak
  • Raphaël Galicher
  • Roberto Ragazzoni
  • S. Mark Ammons
  • Sebastiaan Haffert
  • Simone Di Filippo
  • Steffan Lewis
  • Thierry Fusco
  • Thomas Bertram
  • Thomas Pfrommer
  • Tim Morris
  • Tom Herbst
  • Valentina Viotto
  • Victoria Hutterer
  • Vincent Chambouleyron
  • Vincent Deo
  • William Boucher
  • Wolfgang Brandner
  • Yann Clénet
  • Yoann Brûlé
  • Zibo Ke