• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2000년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.3-3
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• 2000

Adaptive Optical (AO) technology can compensate for wave-front errors in real-time to improve image and beam quality. The research and development on AO in China began in 1979. In 1980, the first laboratory on AO in China was established in Institute of Optics and Electronics (IOE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Since then several AO systems have been built in this Laboratory. The 19-element system is the first AO system in the world ever used in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) facility in our knowledge. It corrects the static error of this large laser engineering. The 21-element system was firstly tested at the 1.2m telescope of Kunming Observatory in 1990 and then up-dated as an IR AO system installed at the 2.16m telescope of Beijing Observatory. The 37-element system was used with a turbulence cell in Laboratory on Atmospheric Optics in Hefei to conduct elementary research on Atmospheric Optics. The 61-element system for astronomical observation is newly developed. It has been successfully installed at the 1.2m telescope of Kunming Observatory and a laser guide star system will be integrated with the system. A compact AO system using our newly developed miniature DM for high resolution ophthalmic imaging of retina is also being built. The key elements of these AO systems, deformable mirrors and fast-steering mirrors, are all developed in this Laboratory. In this talk, the main configurations of these AO systems, some test results as well as the specifications of these active mirrors will be presented.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.251-257
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• 2002

고속 정밀 파면측정 기술은 적응광학 시스템의 성능향상에 중요한 요소이다. 본 논문에서는 적응광학시스템의 하트만 센서로부터 파면정보를 고속으로 측정할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 또한 변형거울 및 기울기거울을 외부유입 노이즈에 강하게 제어하기 위하여 차분 신호를 구성하는 전기적인 제어 장치들을 개발하였다. 무게중심법에 기초한 파면측정 기술은 하트만 센서를 이용한 파면측정 알고리즘으로 가장 널리 사용 되어오고 있으며 좋은 측정결과를 제공해오고 있다. 본 논문에서는 하트만 센서를 이용한 점 영상에서 실제 각 점의 무게 중심위치를 예측하는 예측 가중치가 결합된 무게중심 법을 제안하였다. 제안된 고속 파면측정 알고리즘은 실험을 통해 고속의 정밀한 측정 결과를 제공함을 확인하였고 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1012-1019
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• 2015

본 논문은 공동구조의 RCS(Radar Cross Section)을 계산하는 반복적 물리 광학법(Iterative Physical Optics: IPO)의 연산속도를 가속하는 기법들을 효과적으로 적용하는 방법을 제시한다. IPO는 기존에 공동 구조 내부에서 발생하는 다중 반사 효과 계산 시 기하 광학법(Geometric Optics: GO)를 사용하는 SBR(Shooting and Bouncing Rays)과는 달리 근거리 필드 식을 활용하기 때문에 정확도가 향상된 산란 계산이 가능하다. 하지만 PO(Physical Optics)에 비해 크게 느리며, 실질적인 사용을 위해서는 계산속도의 향상을 위한 기법이 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위해 IPO에서 특징적으로 사용되는 반복적 부분을 GPU(Graphic Processing Unit)으로 계산하고, AIPO-CR(Adaptive Iterative Physical Optics-Change Rate)으로 반복횟수를 최적화하여 효과적으로 연산속도를 향상시킨다.

• KASI NEWSLETTER
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• 통권88호
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• pp.5-5
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• 2009

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2017

An adaptive optics system can be simulated or analyzed to predict its closed-loop performance. However, this type of prediction based on various assumptions can occasionally produce outcomes which are far from actual experience. Thus, every adaptive optics system is desired to be tested in a closed loop on an optical test bench before its application to a telescope. In the close-loop test bench, we need an atmospheric simulator that simulates atmospheric disturbances, mostly in phase, in terms of spatial and temporal behavior. We report the development of an atmospheric turbulence simulator consisting of two point sources, a commercially available deformable mirror with a $12{\times}12$ actuator array, and two random phase plates. The simulator generates an atmospherically distorted single or binary star with varying stellar magnitudes and angular separations. We conduct a simulation of a binary star by optically combining two point sources mounted on independent precision stages. The light intensity of each source (an LED with a pin hole) is adjustable to the corresponding stellar magnitude, while its angular separation is precisely adjusted by moving the corresponding stage. First, the atmospheric phase disturbance at a single instance, i.e., a phase screen, is generated via a computer simulation based on the thin-layer Kolmogorov atmospheric model and its temporal evolution is predicted based on the frozen flow hypothesis. The deformable mirror is then continuously best-fitted to the time-sequenced phase screens based on the least square method. Similarly, we also implement another simulation by rotating two random phase plates which were manufactured to have atmospheric-disturbance-like residual aberrations. This later method is limited in its ability to simulate atmospheric disturbances, but it is easy and inexpensive to implement. With these two methods, individually or in unison, we can simulate typical atmospheric disturbances observed at the Bohyun Observatory in South Korea, which corresponds to an area from 7 to 15 cm with regard to the Fried parameter at a telescope pupil plane of 500 nm.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.269-279
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• 2018

We are currently investigating the feasibility of a 1.6 m telescope with a laser-guide star adaptive optics (AO) system. The telescope, if successfully commissioned, would be the first dedicated adaptive optics observatory in South Korea. The 1.6 m telescope is an f/13.6 Cassegrain telescope with a focal length of 21.7 m. This paper first reviews atmospheric seeing conditions measured over a year in 2014~2015 at the Bohyun Observatory, South Korea, which corresponds to an area from 11.6 to 21.6 cm within 95% probability with regard to the Fried parameter of 880 nm at a telescope pupil plane. We then derive principal seeing conditions such as the Fried parameter and Greenwood frequency for eight astronomical spectral bands (V/R/I/J/H/K/L/M centered at 0.55, 0.64, 0.79, 1.22, 1.65, 2.20, 3.55, and $4.77{\mu}m$). Then we propose an AO system with a laser guide star for the 1.6 m telescope based on the seeing conditions. The proposed AO system consists of a fast tip/tilt secondary mirror, a $17{\times}17$ deformable mirror, a $16{\times}16$ Shack-Hartmann sensor, and a sodium laser guide star (589.2 nm). The high order AO system is close-looped with 2 KHz sampling frequency while the tip/tilt mirror is independently close-looped with 63 Hz sampling frequency. The AO system has three operational concepts: 1) bright target observation with its own wavefront sensing, 2) less bright star observation with wavefront sensing from another bright natural guide star (NGS), and 3) faint target observation with tip/tilt sensing from a bright natural guide star and wavefront sensing from a laser guide star. We name these three concepts 'None', 'NGS only', and 'LGS + NGS', respectively. Following a thorough investigation into the error sources of the AO system, we predict the root mean square (RMS) wavefront error of the system and its corresponding Strehl ratio over nine analysis cases over the worst ($2{\sigma}$) seeing conditions. From the analysis, we expect Strehl ratio >0.3 in most seeing conditions with guide stars.

• 천문학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.73-75
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• 2005

The latest scientific highlights obtained with the Subaru telescope are given together with its current status and on-going instrumentation. We have been successfully operating the telescope and 8 observatory instruments (including an adaptive optics system) since January 1999, when the first light was accomplished. Open-use of Subaru began in December 2000. Subaru has a unique capability of its prime focus among other 8-10 meter class telescopes and has an excellent imaging performance as a result of its sophisticated active optics combined with the high stability of the sky at Mauna Kea. Scientific highlights are given on the discoveries of the most distant galaxies, spiral structure on a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur, and planetesimal belts in the debris disk around $\beta$ Pic. Brief summaries are given for three new instruments: the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS), 188 element adaptive optics system, and Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS)

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.627-640
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• 2021

In a free-space coherent optical communication system, wavefront distortion is frequently beyond the correction range of the adaptive-optics system after the laser has propagated through the atmospheric turbulence. A method of residual wavefront correction is proposed, to improve the quality of coherent optical communication in free space. The relationship between the wavefront phase expanded by Zernike polynomials and the mixing efficiency is derived analytically. The influence of Zernike-polynomial distortion on the bit-error rate (BER) of a phase-modulation system is analyzed. From the theoretical analysis, the BER of the system changes periodically, due to the periodic extension of wavefront distortion. Experimental results show that the BER after correction is reduced from 10^-1 to 10^-4; however, when the closed-loop control algorithm with residual correction is used, the experimental results show that the BER is reduced from 10^-1 to 10^-7.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.183-191
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• 2024

High-resolution retinal imaging based on adaptive optics (AO) is important for early diagnosis related to retinal diseases. However, in practical applications, closed-loop AO correction takes a relatively long time, and traditional open-loop correction methods have low accuracy in correction, leading to unsatisfactory imaging results. In this paper, a SH-U-net-based open-loop AO wavefront correction method is presented for a retinal AO imaging system. The SH-U-net builds a mathematical model of the entire AO system through data training, and the Root mean square (RMS) of the distorted wavefront is 0.08λ after correction in the simulation. Furthermore, it has been validated in experiments. The method improves the accuracy of wavefront correction and shortens the correction time.

• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.185-198
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• 2024

Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI) partnered with the Australian National University (ANU) to develop the adaptive optics (AO) system at the Geochang observatory with a 100 cm optical telescope for multiple applications, including space geodesy, space situational awareness and Korean space missions. The AO system is designed to get high resolution images of space objects with lower magnitude than 10 by using themselves as a natural guide star, and achieve a Strehl ratio larger than 20% in the environment of good seeing with a fried parameter of 12-15 cm. It will provide the imaging of space objects up to 1,000 km as well as its information including size, shape and orientation to improve its orbit prediction precision for collision avoidance between active satellites and space debris. In this paper, we address not only the design of AO system, but also analyze the images of stellar objects. It is also demonstrated that the AO System is achievable to a near diffraction limited full width at half maximum (FWHM) by analyzing stellar images.