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| THEMIS design, laid out in the 1980's, predate the revolution of adaptive optics (AO), and hence didn't foresee its installation. AO has since proved to be an indispensable technology of all modern high-resolution telescope. The core of the THEMIS overhaul that took place in the second half of the 2010's had the installation of a simple AO at the core of its objective. | THEMIS design, laid out in the 1980's, predate the revolution of adaptive optics (AO), and hence didn't foresee its installation. AO has since proved to be an indispensable technology of all modern high-resolution telescope. The core of the THEMIS overhaul that took place in the second half of the 2010's had the installation of a simple AO at the core of its objective. |
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| The installation of the [[technical:tao|THEMIS AO]] was thus particularly challenging has it requires to deal with the existing available space. The entry prism is thus located just inside the spectrograph container, close to its roof, in a location that is not easily accessible. In addition, as shown in the diagram of TAO, it imposed to place the wavefront sensor optical bench (as well as the scanning mirror) outside of the THEMIS spectrograph container, in a vertical layout. | The installation of the [[technical:tao|THEMIS AO]] was thus particularly challenging, as it required to deal with the limited existing available space. The entry prism is thus located just inside the spectrograph container, close to its roof, in a location that is not easily accessible. In addition, as shown in the diagram of TAO, it imposed to place the wavefront sensor optical bench (as well as the scanning mirror) outside of the THEMIS spectrograph container, in a vertical layout. |
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