SIM PlanetQuest white-light fringe modeling: picometer accuracy calibration and estimation algorithms
Applied Optics, Vol. 48, Issue 5, pp. 847-861 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000847
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Abstract
SIM PlanetQuest will perform narrow-angle astrometry with microarcsecond accuracy using starlight interferometry requiring tens of picometers accuracy in estimating the optical path difference change between observing two stars. One challenge is to accurately model the white-light fringes and calibrate the required model parameters. Previous studies have developed algorithms based on a CCD-pixel-level calibration scheme assuming slowly varying phase-dispersion functions. However, recent measurements from the SIM PlanetQuest Spectral Calibration Development Unit (SCDU) showed that wavefront aberrations caused the phase-dispersion functions to vary by tens of nanometers across the bandwidth of a CCD pixel, making the previous CCD-pixel-based calibration scheme inadequate. We present a white-light fringe model including the extra phase dispersions caused by the wavefront aberrations together with a calibration and estimation scheme using long-stroke fringe measurements to resolve the bandwidth of pixels. Using simulated data, we show that the total systematic errors in the calibration and estimation scheme are less than a picometer. With SCDU experimental data, we demonstrate that the end-to-end accuracy of the calibration and estimation algorithm is better than
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OCIS Codes
(100.2650) Image processing : Fringe analysis
(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(120.5050) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase measurement
(120.5060) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Phase modulation
ToC Category:
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology
History
Original Manuscript: September 4, 2008
Revised Manuscript: December 11, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: December 15, 2008
Published: February 2, 2009
Citation
Chengxing Zhai, Jeffrey Yu, Mike Shao, Renaud Goullioud, Mark Milman, and Tsae-Pyng Shen, "SIM PlanetQuest white-light fringe modeling: picometer accuracy calibration and estimation algorithms," Appl. Opt. 48, 847-861 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-48-5-847
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