Fundamental Limits In Resolution Of Double Star Targets

Jerzy Nowakowski; Victor Simuoli; Marek Elbaum

doi:10.1117/12.977995

26 September 1989 Fundamental Limits In Resolution Of Double Star Targets

Jerzy Nowakowski, Victor Simuoli, Marek Elbaum

Proceedings Volume 1111, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing III; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.977995
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Estimation of positions, amplitudes, and the relative phase of double star targets is considered for an imaging system when the image pattern is registered by an incoherent array of photodetectors. An analytical framework is developed to establish the fundamental limits on the resolution of an imaging system and to obtain a quantitative understanding of the dependence of the accuracy of estimation upon the separation between targets and on the number of photons available. The additional number of signal photons required to obtain a desired accuracy for any parameter when the number of unknown parameters increases is computed and discussed for selected cases. Targets representing sources which can be either mutually coherent or incoherent are considered.

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Jerzy Nowakowski, Victor Simuoli, and Marek Elbaum "Fundamental Limits In Resolution Of Double Star Targets", Proc. SPIE 1111, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing III, (26 September 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.977995

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