14 November 2022 Multichannel blind deconvolution for full Stokes image recovery
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Abstract

Random, time-varying blur due to atmospheric turbulence is known to significantly limit image quality. In division-of-time polarimeters, turbulence also randomly distorts the images that are used to infer the polarization content of the scene, leading to substantial Stokes image estimation errors. This research proposes a method to jointly estimate the full polarization properties of a scene along with the point spread functions (PSFs) for each imaging channel in the presence of isoplanatic turbulence. In particular, this research significantly expands on an existing algorithm, to include circular polarization in the framework of a generalized expectation maximization approach. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated on laboratory data using a surrogate phase screen placed near the entrance pupil of an imaging system.

Published by SPIE
Patrick B. Cunningham, Daniel A. LeMaster, and David J. Becker "Multichannel blind deconvolution for full Stokes image recovery," Optical Engineering 61(11), 113102 (14 November 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.11.113102
Received: 8 July 2022; Accepted: 24 October 2022; Published: 14 November 2022
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KEYWORDS
Point spread functions

Image restoration

Deconvolution

Polarization

Optical engineering

Wave plates

Turbulence

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