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In this manuscript we demonstrate a method to reconstruct the wavefront of focused beams from a measured diffraction pattern behind a diffracting mask in real-time. The phase problem is solved by means of a neural network, which is trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jonathon White , Sici Wang , Wilhelm Eschen , Jan Rothhardt

We present a reference-free computational wavefront sensor based on binary amplitude modulation and phase retrieval. The method employs Digital Micro-mirror Device as a programmable amplitude modulator and reconstructs the complex optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Ondrej Denk , Jan Pilar , Martin Divoky , Miroslav Cech , Tomas Mocek

End-to-end optimization, which simultaneously optimizes optics and algorithms, has emerged as a powerful data-driven method for computational imaging system design. This method achieves joint optimization through backpropagation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chi-Jui Ho , Yash Belhe , Steve Rotenberg , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li , Nicholas Antipa

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway

An image-based technique for measuring the complex field in the pupil of an imaging system is presented. Two point source images, one with a small modification introduced in the pupil, are combined using a simple and non-iterative…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-27 Johanan L. Codona

We describe and experimentally validate an algorithm to reconstruct an unknown extended object from through-focus measured image intensities blurred by unknown aberrations. It is shown that the method can recover diffraction-limited image…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-29 Yifeng Shao , Niek Doelman , Silvania F. Pereira , H. Paul Urbach

Wavefront shaping correction makes it possible to image fluorescent particles deep inside scattering tissue. This requires determining a correction mask to be placed in both excitation and emission paths. Standard approaches select…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Dror Aizik , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Anat Levin

We present a new algorithm, FRiM (FRactal Iterative Method), aiming at the reconstruction of the optical wavefront from measurements provided by a wavefront sensor. As our application is adaptive optics on extremely large telescopes, our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Eric Thiebaut , Michel Tallon

In digital images, the performance of optical aberration is a multivariate degradation, where the spectral of the scene, the lens imperfections, and the field of view together contribute to the results. Besides eliminating it at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Shiqi Chen , Jinwen Zhou , Menghao Li , Yueting Chen , Tingting Jiang

Diffraction limited resolution adaptive optics (AO) correction in visible wavelengths requires a high performance control. In this paper we investigate infinite impulse response filters that optimize the wavefront correction: we tested…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Agapito , C. Arcidiacono , F. Quirós-Pacheco , A. Puglisi , S. Esposito

Future large space telescopes will be equipped with adaptive optics (AO) to overcome wavefront aberrations and achieve high contrast for imaging faint astronomical objects, such as earth-like exoplanets and debris disks. In contrast to AO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 He Sun , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Robert Vanderbei

Plane Wave imaging enables many applications that require high frame rates, including localisation microscopy, shear wave elastography, and ultra-sensitive Doppler. To alleviate the degradation of image quality with respect to conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Nishith Chennakeshava , Ben Luijten , Massimo Mischi , Yonina C. Eldar , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms are widely used in digital optics for their efficiency and simplicity. Conventionally, these algorithms do not consider aberrations as they assume an ideal, aberration-free optical system. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Dylan Brault , Corinne Fournier , Tatiana Latychevskaia

Fourier ptychography is a new computational microscopy technique that provides gigapixel-scale intensity and phase images with both wide field-of-view and high resolution. By capturing a stack of low-resolution images under different…

Electronic wave functions of planar molecules can be reconstructed via inverse Fourier transform of angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) data, provided the phase of the electron wave in the detector plane is known. Since the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-23 Pavel Kliuiev , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Juerg Osterwalder , Matthias Hengsberger , Luca Castiglioni

This paper reported a general noninterferometric high-accuracy quantitative phase imaging (QPI) method for arbitrary complex valued objects. Given by a typical 4f optical configuration as the imaging system, three frames of small-window…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Jianhui Huang , An Pan , Huiliang Jin , Guoxiang Meng , Qian Ye

We discuss the use of parametric phase-diverse phase retrieval as an in-situ high-fidelity wavefront measurement method to characterize and optimize the transmitted wavefront of a high-contrast coronagraphic instrument. We apply our method…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Gregory R. Brady , Christopher Moriarty , Peter Petrone , Iva Laginja , Keira Brooks , Tom Comeau , Lucie Leboulleux , Remi Soummer

Direct imaging of exoplanets relies on complex wavefront sensing and control architectures. In addition to fast adaptive optics systems, most of the future high-contrast imaging instruments will soon be equipped with focal plane wavefront…

Signal recovery from nonlinear measurements involves solving an iterative optimization problem. In this paper, we present a framework to optimize the sensing parameters to improve the quality of the signal recovered by the given iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Zikui Cai , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif

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.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. L. Aisher , J. Crass , C. Mackay