Alias-free basis for modal sensorless adaptive optics using the second moment of intensity

DOI10.1142/S0219691320400081zbMATH Open1490.78002arXiv1707.08489OpenAlexW3044398699MaRDI QIDQ5090106FDOQ5090106

Authors: Oleg A. Soloviev 

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Published in: International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In theory of optical aberrations, an aberrated wavefront is represented by its coefficients in some orthogonal basis, for instance by Zernike polynomials. However, many wavefront measurement techniques implicitly approximate the gradient of the wavefront by the gradients of the basis functions. For a finite number of approximation terms, the transition from a basis to its gradient might introduce an aliasing error. To simplify the measurements, another set of functions, an "optimal basis" with orthogonal gradients, is often introduced, for instance Lukosz-Braat polynomials. The article first shows that such bases do not necessarily eliminate the aliasing error and secondly considers the problem of finding an alias-free basis on example of second-moment based indirect wavefront sensing methods. It demonstrates that for these methods any alias-free basis should be formed by functions simultaneously orthogonal in two dot-products and be composed of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator. The fitness of such alias-free basis for optical applications is analysed by means of numerical simulations on typical aberrations occurring in microscopy and astronomy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08489

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zbMATH Keywords

aliasingsecond momentadaptive opticswavefront sensor-less

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Best approximation, Chebyshev systems (41A50) Physical optics (78A10)

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• A new decomposition basis for the classification of aberrations of the human eye

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