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Staa 2269
Staa 2269
1093/mnras/staa2269
Advance Access publication 2020 August 5
Accepted 2020 July 2. Received 2020 June 15; in original form 2020 April 3
ABSTRACT
Adaptive optics (AO) is widely used in ground-based telescopes to compensate the effects of atmosphere distortion, and the
wavefront sensor is a significant component in the AO systems. The plenoptic wavefront sensor has been proposed as an
alternative wavefront sensor adequate for extended objects and wide field of views. In this paper, a experimental bench has been
set up to investigate the slope measurement accuracy and closed-loop wavefront correction performance for extended objects.
From the experimental results, it has been confirmed that plenoptic wavefront sensor is suitable for extended objects wavefront
sensing with proper optical design. The slope measurements have a good linearity and accuracy when observing extended
objects. The image quality is significantly improved after closed-loop correction. A method of global tip/tilt measurement using
only plenoptic wavefront sensor frame is proposed in this paper, it is also a potential advantage of plenoptic wavefront sensor in
extended objects wavefront sensing.
Key words: instrumentation: adaptive optics.
Once the calibrated image has been got, the next step is to re-
arranging the pixels to form the recomposed subaperture image which
can be used to estimate the local slope. One important procedure in
recomposing subaperture image is to identify the positions of each
lenset on plenoptic image. In fact, this can be solved during the optical
alignment. When printing a large enough symmetric pattern on the
Figure 5. The cell image and three recomposed subaperture images at
OLED screen, like a square or a diamond, the plenoptic image should
different position.
also be symmetric, then one can easily find the centre of the plenoptic
image which is also the centre position of all microlens. Assuming
the whole system is well aligned, every subaperture image should
have same integer pixels on plenoptic image, thus the location of
every microlens on plenoptic image can be easily calculated. Fig. 4.
is the recompose results when printing the 1951 USAF resolution
test chart pattern on the OLED screen as extended object, Fig. 4(a)
is the raw plenoptic image, Fig. 4(b) is the complete recomposed
image, Fig. 4(c) is one of the supaperture image. The surrounding
numbers in the pattern are cut in this paper due to the limited OLED
screen size.
estimation. For comparison, we also take a plenoptic sensor frame local slope measurements using cell image as reference. The black
when there is no turbulence, the recomposing supaperture images line marked with ‘+’ is the local slope measurement results plus
from this frame then can be used as the ideal reference image in global tip/tilt measurement results. The green line marked with ‘•’
correlation slope estimation. is the slope measurement results using ideal reference. As expected,
When using the cell image as reference for correlation slope using correlation to measure the relative shift between cell image
estimation, the final results are composed of two parts: and recomposed subaperture image can only obtain the information
Part A: the local slope of every recomposed subaperture. This part of local slope. During the experiments, the high-order turbulence
can be derived by calculating the relative shift between recomposed aberration is always constant, flat or a fixed perspex, so the local slope
subaperture image and cell image. measurement of each recomposed subaperture is almost invariant.
Part B: the global tip/tilt. As illustrated in previous section, cell The final measurement results is the summation of measured local
image is the low resolution image of the objects, which indicates slope and global tip/tilt, compared to slope measurements when
the image motion. The global tip/tilt information can be obtained by using ideal reference, the measurement results are basically the same,
calculating the relative shift between current cell image and previous which means the slope measurement method proposed in this paper
restored reference cell image via correlation method. are able to measure the actual slope information including both local
Fig. 7 is the slope measurement results of one of the recomposed slope and global slope simultaneously only use plenoptic sensor
subaperture (row = 14 and column = 14) when using resolution chart frames. In reality, the ideal plenoptic sensor frame is unobtainable
as object. Fig. 7(a) is the slope measurement results when only use and the choice of the reference cell image has a significant impact
DM to generate tip/tilt aberrations from −1.0 to 1.0 pixels, and the on global tip/tilt measurements results, so it needs to be treated
Fig. 7(b) is the slope measurement results when a piece of perspex more carefully. The global tip/tilt control and reference cell image
is placed at pupil to induce a constant turbulence and the DM is also choosing strategies requires more discussion and will be presented
generating the same tip/tilt as Fig. 7(a). The blue solid line is the in future work.