End-to-end simulations of photonic phase correctors for adaptive optics systems
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| author | Patel, Dhwanil Diab, Momen Cheriton, Ross Taylor, Jacob Rojas, Libertad Vachon, Martin Xu, Dan-Xia Schmid, Jens H. Cheben, Pavel Janz, Siegfried Sivanandam, Suresh |
| author_facet | Patel, Dhwanil Diab, Momen Cheriton, Ross Taylor, Jacob Rojas, Libertad Vachon, Martin Xu, Dan-Xia Schmid, Jens H. Cheben, Pavel Janz, Siegfried Sivanandam, Suresh |
| contents | Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical telescopes, are costly, sensitive, and complex mechanical components that require careful calibration to enable high-quality imaging in astronomy, microscopy, and vision science. They are also impractical to deploy in large numbers for non-imaging applications like free-space optical communication. Here, we propose a photonic integrated c rcuit capable of spatially sampling the wavefront collected by the telescope and co-phasing the subapertures to maximize the flux delivered to an output single-mode fiber as the integrated photonic implementation of a deformable mirror. We present the results of end-to-end simulations to quantify the performance of the proposed photonic solution under varying atmospheric conditions toward realizing an adaptive optics system without a deformable mirror for free-space optical receivers. |
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| spellingShingle | End-to-end simulations of photonic phase correctors for adaptive optics systems Patel, Dhwanil Diab, Momen Cheriton, Ross Taylor, Jacob Rojas, Libertad Vachon, Martin Xu, Dan-Xia Schmid, Jens H. Cheben, Pavel Janz, Siegfried Sivanandam, Suresh Optics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical telescopes, are costly, sensitive, and complex mechanical components that require careful calibration to enable high-quality imaging in astronomy, microscopy, and vision science. They are also impractical to deploy in large numbers for non-imaging applications like free-space optical communication. Here, we propose a photonic integrated c rcuit capable of spatially sampling the wavefront collected by the telescope and co-phasing the subapertures to maximize the flux delivered to an output single-mode fiber as the integrated photonic implementation of a deformable mirror. We present the results of end-to-end simulations to quantify the performance of the proposed photonic solution under varying atmospheric conditions toward realizing an adaptive optics system without a deformable mirror for free-space optical receivers. |
| title | End-to-end simulations of photonic phase correctors for adaptive optics systems |
| topic | Optics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11171 |