Wavefront sensors for adaptive optical systems

V. P. Lukin; N. N. Botygina; O. N. Emaleev; P. A. Konyaev

doi:10.1117/12.865964

11 October 2010 Wavefront sensors for adaptive optical systems

V. P. Lukin, N. N. Botygina, O. N. Emaleev, P. A. Konyaev

Proceedings Volume 7828, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XIII; 78280P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865964
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2010, Toulouse, France

Abstract

A high precision Shack-Hartmann wavefront (WF) sensor has been developed on the basis of a low-aperture off-axis diffraction lens array. The device is capable of measuring WF slopes at array sub-apertures of size 640x640 μm with an error not exceeding 4.80 arcsec (0.15 pixel), which corresponds to the standard deviation equal to 0.017λ at the reconstructed WF with wavelength λ . Also the modification of this sensor for adaptive system of solar telescope using extended scenes as tracking objects, such as sunspot, pores, solar granulation and limb, is presented. The software package developed for the proposed WF sensors includes three algorithms of local WF slopes estimation (modified centroids, normalized cross-correlation and fast Fourier-demodulation), as well as three methods of WF reconstruction (modal Zernike polynomials expansion, deformable mirror response functions expansion and phase unwrapping), that can be selected during operation with accordance to the application.

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V. P. Lukin, N. N. Botygina, O. N. Emaleev, and P. A. Konyaev "Wavefront sensors for adaptive optical systems", Proc. SPIE 7828, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XIII, 78280P (11 October 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.865964

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