Joint optical-digital design strategy for adaptive optics systems: application to wavelength selection for satellite imaging

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Hauptverfasser: Cheyssial, Florian, Mugnier, Laurent, Petit, Cyril
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author Cheyssial, Florian
Mugnier, Laurent
Petit, Cyril
author_facet Cheyssial, Florian
Mugnier, Laurent
Petit, Cyril
contents Adaptive optics can be used to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence on imaging systems, but the correction is only partial, and deconvolution is often required to improve the resolution. This results in entire optical/digital systems, which are traditionally designed sequentially, i.e. , the adaptive optics system is optimised first, and the restoration algorithms are designed a second time. Studies on optical/digital systems have shown that jointly optimizing the whole system is a better alternative. We propose to extend these co-design strategies to the design of an adaptive optics-assisted imaging system. We derive a simple criterion that takes into account the source properties and the entire optical/ digital system performance. To illustrate its interest, we use it to optimize the wavelength distribution between the wavefront sensor and the imaging camera. In addition, we explore the potential of using multiple imaging channels operating at different wavelengths as a means of making an imaging system robust to turbulence strength and source magnitude variations. Later, any parameter of the optical/digital system, if not the entire system itself, could be optimized this way.
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spellingShingle Joint optical-digital design strategy for adaptive optics systems: application to wavelength selection for satellite imaging
Cheyssial, Florian
Mugnier, Laurent
Petit, Cyril
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Optics
Adaptive optics can be used to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence on imaging systems, but the correction is only partial, and deconvolution is often required to improve the resolution. This results in entire optical/digital systems, which are traditionally designed sequentially, i.e. , the adaptive optics system is optimised first, and the restoration algorithms are designed a second time. Studies on optical/digital systems have shown that jointly optimizing the whole system is a better alternative. We propose to extend these co-design strategies to the design of an adaptive optics-assisted imaging system. We derive a simple criterion that takes into account the source properties and the entire optical/ digital system performance. To illustrate its interest, we use it to optimize the wavelength distribution between the wavefront sensor and the imaging camera. In addition, we explore the potential of using multiple imaging channels operating at different wavelengths as a means of making an imaging system robust to turbulence strength and source magnitude variations. Later, any parameter of the optical/digital system, if not the entire system itself, could be optimized this way.
title Joint optical-digital design strategy for adaptive optics systems: application to wavelength selection for satellite imaging
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06537