Prof. Jean-Luc Starck Profile

Prof. Jean-Luc Starck

at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Conference Chair | Author | Editor | Instructor

Publications (41)

PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | August 24, 2017

Optimal transport-based dictionary learning and its application to Euclid-like Point Spread Function representation

Proc. SPIE. 10394, Wavelets and Sparsity XVII

KEYWORDS: Point spread functions, Signal processing, Image processing

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SPIE Journal Paper | February 5, 2015

Multireturn compressed gated range imaging

Tsagkatakis, Grigorios , Woiselle, Arnaud , Tzagkarakis, George , Bousquet, Marc , Starck, Jean-Luc , Tsakalides, Panagiotis

OE Vol. 54 Issue 03

KEYWORDS: Range imaging, Associative arrays, Sensors, Signal processing, Signal to noise ratio, Imaging systems, Pulsed laser operation, Binary data, Cameras, Signal attenuation

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PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | August 2, 2014

The science case and data processing strategy for the Thinned Aperture Light Collector (TALC): a project for a 20m far-infrared space telescope

Proc. SPIE. 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave

KEYWORDS: Talc, Telescopes, Space telescopes, Point spread functions, Signal to noise ratio, Electroluminescent displays, Galactic astronomy, Spatial resolution, Stars, Signal processing

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The future of far-infrared observations rests on our capacity to reach sub-arcsecond angular resolution around 100 μm, in order to achieve a significant advance with respect to our current capabilities. Furthermore, by reaching this angular resolution we can bridge the gap between capacities offered by the JWST in the near infrared and those allowed by ALMA in the submillimeter, and thus benefit from similar resolving capacities over the whole wavelength range where interstellar dust radiates and where key atomic and molecular transitions are found. In an accompanying paper,¹ we present a concept of a deployable annular telescope, named TALC for Thinned Aperture Light Collector, reaching 20m in diameter. Being annular, this telescope features a main beam width equivalent to that of a 27m telescope, i.e. an angular resolution of 0.92" at 100 μm. In this paper we focus on the science case of such a telescope as well on the aspects of unconventional data processing that come with this unconventional optical configuration. The principal science cases of TALC revolve around its imaging capacities, that allow resolving the Kuiper belt in extra-solar planetary systems, or the filamentary scale in star forming clouds all the way to the Galactic Center, or the Narrow Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei of the Local Group, or breaking the confusion limit to resolve the Cosmic Infrared Background. Equipping this telescope with detectors capable of imaging polarimetry offers as well the extremely interesting perspective to study the influence of the magnetic field in structuring the interstellar medium. We will then present simulations of the optical performance of such a telescope. The main feature of an annular telescope is the small amount of energy contained in the main beam, around 30% for the studied configuration, and the presence of bright diffraction rings. Using simulated point spread functions for realistic broad-band filters, we study the observing performance of TALC in typical situations, i.e a field of point sources, and fields with emission power at every physical scales, taken to represent an extragalactic deep field observation and an interstellar medium observation. We investigate different inversion techniques to try and recover the information present in the input field. We show that techniques combining a forward modeling of the observation process and a reconstruction algorithm exploiting the concept of sparsity (i.e. related to the more general field of compressed sensing) represent a promising avenue to reach the angular resolution promised by the main beam of TALC.