Turbulence effect mitigation using adaptive optics post-processing of holographically recorded short-exposure images

Mikhail A. Vorontsov; Mathieu Aubailly; Rensheng Dou

doi:10.1117/12.735949

25 September 2007 Turbulence effect mitigation using adaptive optics post-processing of holographically recorded short-exposure images

Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Mathieu Aubailly, Rensheng Dou

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Proceedings Volume 6708, Atmospheric Optics: Models, Measurements, and Target-in-the-Loop Propagation; 67080A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.735949
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present a post-processing technique for mitigating the effect of turbulence on holographically recorded short-exposure images that consists of the two following sequential steps. First, the coherent field scattered from the viewed object propagates through a turbulence layer and is used to record a short-exposure Fourier hologram by interference with a know reference beam. Information about the instantaneous distorted optical field is hence stored permanently in the hologram. Secondly, the recorded hologram is read a posteriori using the reference beam with its wavefront modulated using adaptive optics. The resulting intensity image is used to compute a sharpness metric. Optimization of the metric is performed using a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm. Experimental and numerical results show an improvement of the image quality after convergence of the SPGD algorithm.

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Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Mathieu Aubailly, and Rensheng Dou "Turbulence effect mitigation using adaptive optics post-processing of holographically recorded short-exposure images", Proc. SPIE 6708, Atmospheric Optics: Models, Measurements, and Target-in-the-Loop Propagation, 67080A (25 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.735949

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