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For high-contrast imaging (HCI) systems, such as VLT/SPHERE, the performance of the system at small angular separations is contaminated by the wind-driven halo in the science image. This halo is a result of the servo-lag error in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 M. A. M. van Kooten , Niek Doelman , Matthew Kenworthy

Aero-optical beam control relies on the development of low-latency forecasting techniques to quickly predict wavefronts aberrated by the Turbulent Boundary Layer (TBL) around an airborne optical system, and its study applies to a…

Wave front sensing of the surface of equal phase for a propagating electromagnetic wave is a vital technology in fields ranging from real time adaptive optics, to high accuracy metrology, to medical optometry. We have developed a new method…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-01 C. L. Carilli , L. Torino , B. Nikolic , N. Thyagarajan , U. Iriso

In imaging modalities recording diffraction data, the original image can be reconstructed assuming known phases. When phases are unknown, oversampling and a constraint on the support region in the original object can be used to solve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Alberto Pietrini , Carl Nettelblad

Time-delay error is a significant error source in adaptive optics (AO) systems. It arises from the latency between sensing the wavefront and applying the correction. Predictive control algorithms reduce the time-delay error, providing…

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High-contrast imaging instruments need extreme wavefront control to directly image exoplanets. This requires highly sensitive wavefront sensors which optimally make use of the available photons to sense the wavefront. Here, we propose to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Rico Landman , Christoph Keller , Emiel H. Por , Sebastiaan Haffert , David Doelman , Thijs Stockmans

Pulse-agile radar systems have demonstrated favorable performance in dynamic electromagnetic scenarios. However, the use of non-identical waveforms within a radar's coherent processing interval may lead to harmful distortion effects when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone

Latency in the control loop of adaptive optics (AO) systems can severely limit performance. Under the frozen flow hypothesis linear predictive control techniques can overcome this, however identification and tracking of relevant turbulent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Xuewen Liu , Tim Morris , Chris Saunter , Francisco Javier de Cos Juez , Carlos González-Gutiérrez , Lisa Bardou

Optical aberrations prevent telescopes from reaching their theoretical diffraction limit. Once estimated, these aberrations can be compensated for using deformable mirrors in a closed loop. Focal plane wavefront sensing enables the…

We propose and demonstrate a method for the adaptive wavefront correction of dynamic multimode fiber beams for the first time. The wavefront of incident beam is reconstructed in real-time based on the complete modal information, which…

Complex data mining has wide application value in many fields, especially in the feature extraction and classification tasks of unlabeled data. This paper proposes an algorithm based on self-supervised learning and verifies its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yingbin Liang , Lu Dai , Shuo Shi , Minghao Dai , Junliang Du , Haige Wang

Magnet errors in storage rings significantly degrade beam performance, impacting the brightness and stability of the light source. Therefore, beam-based correction is crucial for the safe operation of machines and the stability of radiated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jianhao Xu

The existing machine learning algorithms for minimizing the convex function over a closed convex set suffer from slow convergence because their learning rates must be determined before running them. This paper proposes two machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

Increasing interest in astronomical applications of non-linear curvature wavefront sensors for turbulence detection and correction makes it important to understand how best to handle the data they produce, particularly at low light levels.…

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When training predictive models on data with missing entries, the most widely used and versatile approach is a pipeline technique where we first impute missing entries and then compute predictions. In this paper, we view prediction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dimitris Bertsimas , Arthur Delarue , Jean Pauphilet

Much of the alignment tuning literature is organized around optimization objectives, while the construction of alignment data is often treated implicitly. In this survey, we adopt a data centric perspective and reframe alignment tuning as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hwanjun Song

Real-time computational speed and a high degree of precision are requirements for computer-assisted interventions. Applying a segmentation network to a medical video processing task can introduce significant inter-frame prediction noise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Robert Mendel , Tobias Rueckert , Dirk Wilhelm , Daniel Rueckert , Christoph Palm

Wavefront sensing in solar adaptive-optics is currently done with correlating Shack-Hartmann sensors, although the spatial- and temporal-resolutions of the phase measurements are then limited by the extremely fast computing required to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Aglae Kellerer

Wavefront estimation is an essential component of adaptive optics where the goal is to recover the underlying phase from its Fourier magnitude. While this may sound identical to classical phase retrieval, wavefront estimation faces more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Nicholas Chimitt , Ali Almuallem , Qi Guo , Stanley H. Chan

Inhomogeneities in the refractive index of a biological sample can introduce phase aberrationsin microscopy systems, severely impairing the quality of images. Adaptive optics can be employed to correct for phase aberrations and improve…