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Several telescopes include large Deformable Mirrors (DM) located directly inside the telescope. These adaptive telescopes trigger new constraints for the calibration of the Adaptive Optics (AO) systems as they usually offer no access to an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-10 C. T. Heritier , S. Esposito , T. Fusco , B. Neichel , S. Oberti , R. Briguglio , G. Agapito , A. Puglisi , E. Pinna , P. -Y. Madec

Wavefront sensors (WFS) are now core components in the fields of metrology of optical systems, biomedical optics and adaptive optics systems for astronomy. Nowadays, the most popular WFS is the Shack-Hartmann, which is fully static but…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-21 Francois Hénault , Yan Feng , Alain Spang , Laura Schreiber

In ground-based astronomy, Adaptive Optics (AO) is a pivotal technique, engineered to correct wavefront phase distortions and thereby enhance the quality of the observed images. Integral to an AO system is the wavefront sensor (WFS), which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yutong Wu , Roland Wagner , Ronny Ramlau , Raymond H. Chan

Nullifying the servo bandwidth errors improves the strehl ratio by a substantial quantity in adaptive optics systems. An effective method for predicting atmospheric turbulence to reduce servo bandwidth errors in real time closed loop…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-14 Akondi Vyas , M B Roopashree , B Raghavendra Prasad

In this article, we compare a set of Wave Front Sensors (WFS) based on Fourier filtering technique. In particular, this study explores the "class of pyramidal WFS" defined as the 4 faces pyramid WFS, all its recent variations (6, 8 faces,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-10 Olivier Fauvarque , Benoit Neichel , Thierry Fusco , Jean-François Sauvage , Orion Giraut

This study presents a nonlinear signal processing method for accurate radar-based heartbeat interval estimation by exploiting the periodicity of higher-order harmonics inherent in heartbeat signals. Unlike conventional approaches that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kohei Shimomura , Chi-Hsuan Lee , Takuya Sakamoto

The nonlinear curvature wavefront sensor (nlCWFS) offers improved sensitivity for adaptive optics (AO) systems compared to existing wavefront sensors, such as the Shack-Hartmann. The nominal nlCWFS design uses a series of imaging planes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Stanimir Letchev , Jonathan Crass , Justin R. Crepp

Consistent operation of adaptive optics (AO) systems requires the use of a wavefront sensor (WFS) with high sensitivity and low noise. The nonlinear curvature WFS (nlCWFS) has been shown both in simulations and lab experiments to be more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Sam Potier , Justin Crepp , Stanimir Letchev

Atmospheric wavefront prediction based on previous wavefront sensor measurements can greatly enhance the performance of adaptive optics systems. We propose an optimal linear approach based on the Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Olivier Guyon , Jared Males

Optical distortions can significantly deteriorate the measurement accuracy in imaging systems. Such distortions can occur at fluctuating phase boundaries as well as multiple-phase flows and result from the accompanied refractive index…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 M. Teich , J. Grottke , H. Radner , L. BÜttner , J. W. Czarske

Dynamic wavefront aberrations negatively impact a wide range of optical applications including astronomy, optical free-space telecommunications and bio-imaging. Wavefront errors can be compensated by an adaptive optics system comprised of a…

Adaptive optics systems correct atmospheric turbulence in real time. Most adaptive optics systems used routinely correct in the near infrared, at wavelengths greater than 1 micron. MagAO- X is a new extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) instrument…

The segmentation of the telescope pupil (by spiders & the segmented M4) create areas of phase isolated by the width of the spiders on the wavefront sensor (WFS), breaking the spatial continuity of the wavefront. The poor sensitivity of the…

We investigate methods to calibrate the non-common path aberrations at an adaptive optics system having a wavefront-correcting device working at an extremely high resolution (larger than 150x150). We use focal-plane images collected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Visa Korkiakoski , Christoph U. Keller , Niek Doelman , Matthew Kenworthy , Gilles Otten , Michel Verhaegen

We consider the mathematical background of the wavefront sensor type that is widely used in Adaptive Optics systems for astronomy, microscopy, and ophthalmology. The theoretical analysis of the pyramid sensor forward operators presented in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Victoria Hutterer , Ronny Ramlau , Iuliia Shatokhina

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

We propose a focal-plane wavefront sensor (FPWFS) based on a short multimode fiber (MMF) capable of operating under moderately broadband illumination. By coupling the aberrated focal-plane field into an MMF of length <1 cm, we preserve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito , Natalia Arteaga-Marrero , Ian Cunnyngham , Jeff Kuhn

The future large adaptive telescopes will trigger new constraints for the calibration of Adaptive Optics (AO) systems equipped with pre-focal Deformable Mirrors (DM). The image of the DM actuators grid as seen by the Wave-Front Sensor (WFS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. T. Heritier , T. Fusco , S. Oberti , B. Neichel , S. Esposito , P. -Y. Madec

Ptychography has become prominent at synchrotron facilities worldwide for characterizing biological and material specimens' topological structures and properties at the nanometer or atomic scale, due to its lens - less, highly quantitative…

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