Low-latency, photon-efficient wavefront sensing for ultrafast adaptive optics imaging of the human retina

Yan Liu; James A. Crowell; Kazuhiro Kurokawa; Marcel T. Bernucci; Qiuzhi Ji; Ayoub Lassoued; Hae Won Jung; Donald T. Miller

doi:10.1117/12.2650674

14 March 2023 Low-latency, photon-efficient wavefront sensing for ultrafast adaptive optics imaging of the human retina

Yan Liu, James A. Crowell, Kazuhiro Kurokawa, Marcel T. Bernucci, Qiuzhi Ji, Ayoub Lassoued, Hae Won Jung, Donald T. Miller

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Proceedings Volume 12360, Ophthalmic Technologies XXXIII; 123600A (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650674
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Adaptive optics (AO) measures and corrects ocular wavefront aberrations, enabling cellular-resolution retinal imaging and stimulation, and enhanced visual performance. AO is a dynamic control system that must track and correct temporal changes in ocular aberrations in real time. This necessitates a wavefront sensor whose integration time and readout time are sufficiently short to minimize the latency of the feedback system and hence maximize AO performance. Most current ophthalmic AO systems use long wavefront sensor integration times on the order of 10−60 ms, resulting in long latencies, low AO loop rates (typically no greater than 10 Hz with a discontinuous-exposure scheme), and small AO closed-loop bandwidths (less than 1.5 Hz). Here, by using an integration time (0.126 ms) that is 100−500× shorter and a readout speed of the wavefront sensor that is 3−100× higher, we reduce the AO latency and increase the AO bandwidth by ~30× to 37.5 Hz. Although our wavefront sensor detects 100−500× fewer photons, our noise analysis shows that this limited number of photons is still sufficient for diffraction-limited wavefront measurements and hence our wavefront sensing is photon-efficient. We demonstrate that the resulting ultrafast AO running at 233 Hz significantly improves aberration correction and retinal image quality over conventional AO in a clinically-relevant scenario.

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Yan Liu, James A. Crowell, Kazuhiro Kurokawa, Marcel T. Bernucci, Qiuzhi Ji, Ayoub Lassoued, Hae Won Jung, and Donald T. Miller "Low-latency, photon-efficient wavefront sensing for ultrafast adaptive optics imaging of the human retina", Proc. SPIE 12360, Ophthalmic Technologies XXXIII, 123600A (14 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650674

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