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Direct wavefront sensing from extended objects: a general sensor

Optics 2021-10-04 v1 Image and Video Processing

Abstract

Wavefront sensing from an extended object is a challenging task since the phase to be sensed is disturbed by the phase generated from the structure of the extended object. To address this problem, a general wavefront sensor was proposed. The hardware of the sensor consists of a field lens, a collimating lens, a lenslet array, and a camera. The idea for its algorithm is to eliminate the phase caused by the extended object and reconstruct the point spread function through each lenslet. As a result, the scenario of wavefront sensing from an extended object has been converted to the conventional one from a point source. Numerical simulations and experiments both verify the feasibility and the accuracy of the proposed sensor.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05445,
  title  = {Direct wavefront sensing from extended objects: a general sensor},
  author = {Changwei Li and Yanting Lu and Sijiong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05445},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages, 10 figures; to be submitted

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