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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

Presented is a novel way to combine snapshot compressive imaging and lateral shearing interferometry in order to capture the spatio-spectral phase of an ultrashort laser pulse in a single shot. A deep unrolling algorithm is utilised for the…

In this paper, we derive a new class of methods for the classic 2D phase unwrapping problem of recovering a phase function from its wrapped form. For this, we consider the wrapped phase as a wavefront aberration in an optical system, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Simon Hubmer , Victoria Laidlaw , Ronny Ramlau , Ekaterina Sherina , Bernadett Stadler

The advent of spatiotemporal wave packets (STWPs), represented by spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs), has paved the way for the exploration in optics and photonics. To date, despite considerable efforts, a comprehensive and efficient…

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…

A new wavefront sensing approach, derived from the successful curvature wavefront sensing concept but using a non-linear phase retrieval wavefront reconstruction scheme, is described. The non-linear curvature wavefront sensor (nlCWFS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Olivier Guyon

Microlocal analysis provides deep insight into singularity structures and is often crucial for solving inverse problems, predominately, in imaging sciences. Of particular importance is the analysis of wavefront sets and the correct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Héctor Andrade-Loarca , Gitta Kutyniok , Ozan Öktem , Philipp Petersen

The quantum wave function of multiple particles provides additional information which is inaccessible to detectors working alone. Here, we introduce the coincidence wavefront sensing (CWS) method to reconstruct the phase of the multiphoton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Yi Zheng , Mu Yang , Yu-Wei Liao , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Phase imaging and wavefront reconstruction from noisy observations of complex exponent is a topic of this paper. It is a highly non-linear problem because the exponent is a 2{\pi}-periodic function of phase. The reconstruction of phase and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Vladimir Katkovnik , Mykola Ponomarenko , Karen Egiazarian

Single-shot hyperspectral wavefront sensing is essential for applications like spatio-spectral coupling metrology in high power laser or fast material dispersion imaging. Under broadband illumination, traditional wavefront sensors assume an…

The ideal imaging system would efficiently capture information about all fundamental properties light: intensity, direction, wavelength, and polarization. Most common imaging systems only map the spatial degrees of freedom of light onto a…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-26 Conner Ballew , Gregory Roberts , Andrei Faraon

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

With an extremely high dimensionality, the spatial degree of freedom of entangled photons is a key tool for quantum foundation and applied quantum techniques. To fully utilize the feature, the essential task is to experimentally…

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

An adaptive optics system with a single deformable mirror is being implemented on the THEMIS 90cm solar telescope. This system is designed to operate in the visible and is required to be as robust as possible in order to deliver the best…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Michel Tallon , Éric Thiébaut , Maud Langlois , Bernard Gelly , Richard Douet , Clémentine Béchet , Loïc Denis , Gil Moretto

This paper provides a framework for the incorporation of the wavefront sensor measurements in the context of observing modes in which the science camera takes millisecond exposures. In this formulation, the wavefront sensor measurements…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Richard A. Frazin

Advanced wavefront sensors (WFS) are essential for enabling new science cases for telescopes that utilize adaptive optics (AO) systems. While complex field WFS -- those that estimate the electric field phase and amplitude through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 D. Angelica Huerta , Justin R. Crepp , Caleb G. Abbott , Brian Joseph

We present several nonlinear wavefront sensing techniques for few-mode sensors, all of which are empirically calibrated and agnostic to the choice of wavefront sensor. The first class of techniques involves a straightforward extension of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Jonathan Lin , Michael P. Fitzgerald

We present a technique for measuring the transverse spatial properties of an optical wavefront. Intensity and phase profiles are recovered by analysis of a series of interference patterns produced by the combination of a scanning X-shaped…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 David T. Lloyd , Kevin O'Keeffe , Simon M. Hooker

Wavefront shaping systems aim to image deep into scattering tissue by reshaping incoming and outgoing light to correct aberrations caused by tissue inhomogeneity However, the desired modulation depends on the unknown tissue structure and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sagi Monin , Marina Alterman , Anat Levin