3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Characterization and on-sky testing of photonic, AWG-based astronomical spectrographs
Jeronimo Calderon-Gomez, Frantz Martinache, Nick Cvetojevic +14
Astrophotonics is a field that intends to meet the needs of next-generation instruments at a small footprint, low cost, and high stability, compared to bulk-optics-based alternativ…
astro-ph.IM2026
DD4AO control law for RISTRETTO: robustness, real-time performance, and on-sky validation with PAPYRUS
Isaac Dinis, Muskan Schinde, Nicolas Blind +11
This study presents DD4AO progress towards its implementation in the RISTRETTO instrument. DD4AO is a novel frequency-domain, data-driven controller for adaptive optics that levera…
astro-ph.IM2026
On-sky demonstration of reinforcement learning for adaptive optics control
Jalo Nousiainen, Vincent Chambouleyron, Benoit Neichel +7
Reinforcement learning (RL)-based algorithms have recently emerged as a promising approach for adaptive optics (AO) control. In simulations and laboratory experiments, they have de…