Measurement of Telescope Aberrations Through Atmospheric Turbulence by use of Phase Diversity
Applied Optics, Vol. 40, Issue 4, pp. 544-552 (2001)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.40.000544
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Abstract
We conduct computer simulations of the reconstruction of a wave front at a telescope pupil with the phase-diversity method. An instantaneous wave front is reconstructed from focused and defocused specklegrams of a point star. In the wave-front reconstruction we do not fit the wave front to Zernike polynomials but retrieve the phase with a phase-unwrapping procedure. Averaging over many atmospherically perturbed wave fronts leads to the residual phase error, namely, the aberration of the telescope. The scintillation effect, nonuniformity of amplitude on a telescope pupil, is also discussed.
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OCIS Codes
(010.1330) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric turbulence
(030.6610) Coherence and statistical optics : Stellar speckle interferometry
(100.5070) Image processing : Phase retrieval
(110.6770) Imaging systems : Telescopes
(350.1260) Other areas of optics : Astronomical optics
Citation
Naoshi Baba and Kohta Mutoh, "Measurement of Telescope Aberrations Through Atmospheric Turbulence by use of Phase Diversity," Appl. Opt. 40, 544-552 (2001)
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