• 한국광학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.106-113
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 37채널을 갖는 적응광학계용 SiC(Silicon Carbide) 변형거울의 파면 보상 성능 검증에 관한 내용을 다룬다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 SiC 변형거울의 파면 보상 성능을 예측하였고, 실제 closed-loop 적응광학계를 구성하여 파면 보상 성능을 확인 하였다. Closed-loop 적응광학계는 광원, 위상판, SiC 변형거울, 고속 샥-하트만 센서 그리고 제어용 컴퓨터로 구성되어있다. 회전하는 위상판에 의해 왜곡된 파면을 샥-하트만 센서로 측정하고, SiC 변형거울을 이용하여 왜곡된 파면을 보상해주는 시스템이다. 결과적으로 closed-loop 적응광학계에서 500 Hz의 속도로 PV(Peak-to-Valley) $0.3{\mu}m{\sim}0.9{\mu}m$, RMS(Root-Mean-Square) $0.06{\mu}m{\sim}0.25{\mu}m$의 왜곡된 파면을 PV $0.1{\mu}m$, RMS $0.03{\mu}m$이하로 보상시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.324-334
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• 2024

파면곡률거리추정(Wavefront Curvature Ranging, WCR)은 음파의 파면곡률로부터 음원의 거리를 추정하는 방법이다. 기존의 파면곡률거리추정은 음속을 상수로 가정하고 삼각법으로 거리를 추정한다. 이 가정 때문에 해저면반사경로가 뚜렷하게 분리되는 해양환경에서는 거리 오차가 발생한다. 거리 오차를 줄이기 위해 해양의 음속구조를 적용하고 최대우도추정(Maximum Likelihood Estimation, MLE)방법으로 거리를 추정하는 정합 파면곡률거리추정(Matched Wavefront Curvature Ranging, MWCR) 을 제안하였다. 정합 파면곡률거리추정의 시뮬레이션 결과로부터 거리 오차의 감소를 확인하였다. 향후에 실측 신호로부터 거리 추정의 신뢰성을 확인하면 소나 시스템에 적용 가능할 것이다.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.135-138
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• 2007

Using a Shack-Hartmann sensor and sub-wavelength sized pinhole point source, we develope an optical testing system that measures the wavefront error of high numerical aperture and small sized optical components. The subwavelength sized pinhole generates perfect spherical waves with large diffraction angle and this makes possible to test high numerical aperture optics. The Shack-Hartmann sensor reconstructs the wavefront and calculates the aberrations. We make a home-made reference plane wave source which generates nearly perfect plane waves and the calibration with this plane source gives the overall uncertainty of the optical testing system 0.010 $\lambda$ rms.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.228-235
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• 2012

It is very important to analyze effectively the tolerance of an optical system with high resolution as the projection lens of photolithography or as the objective lens of a microscope. We would like to find an effective assembly structure and compensators to correct aberrations through global wavefront sensitivity analysis using Zernike polynomial expansion from the field and pupil coordinates rather than from only pupil coordinates. In this paper, we introduce global wavefront coefficients by small perturbations of the optical system, and analyze the optical performance with these coefficients. From this analysis, it is possible to see how we can enlarge the tolerance through the proper assembly structure and compensators.

• 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.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2015

The wavefront printer records a volume-reflection hologram as a two-dimensional array of elemental holograms from computer-generated holograms (CGHs) displayed on a spatial light modulator (SLM). The wavefront coming from the object is extracted by filtering in the spatial-frequency domain. This paper presents a method to improve color reproduction in a wavefront printer with spatial division of exposures at primary colors, by adaptive partitioning of the SLM in accordance with the color content encoded in the input CGHs, and by the controllable change of exposure times for the recording of primary colors. The method is verified with a color wavefront printer with demagnification of the object beam. The quality of reconstruction achieved by the proposed method proves its efficiency in eliminating the stripe artifacts that are superimposed on reconstructed images in conventional mosaic recording.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2006

Wavefront sensing using a Shack-Hartmann sensor has been widely used for estimating wavefront errors or distortions. The sensor combines the local slopes, which are estimated from the centroids of each lenslet image, to give the overall wavefront reconstruction. It was previously shown that the pupil-plane irradiance profile effects the centroid estimation. Furthermore, a previous study reported that the reconstructed wavefront from a planar wavefront with a Gaussian pupil irradiance profile contains large focus and spherical aberration terms when there is a focus error. However, it has not been reported yet how seriously the pupil irradiance profiles, which can occur in practical applications, effect the sensing errors. This paper considered two cases when the irradiance profiles are not uniform: 1) when the light source is Gaussian and 2) when there is a partial interference due to a double reflection by a beam splitting element. The images formed by a Shack-Hartmann sensor were simulated through fast Fourier transform and were then supposed to be detected by a noiseless CCD camera. The simulations found that sensing errors, due to the Gaussian irradiance profile and the partial interference, were found to be smaller than RMS ${\lambda}/50$ when ${\lambda}$ is $0.6328\;{\mu}m$, which can be ignored in most practical cases where the reference and test beams have the same irradiance profiles.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.479-488
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• 2022

To account for the internal thermal effects of solid-state lasers, a method using a back propagation (BP) neural network integrated with a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is developed, which is a new wavefront distortion correction technique. In particular, by using a slab laser model, a series of fiber pumped sources are employed to form a controlled array to pump the gain medium, allowing the internal temperature field of the gain medium to be designed by altering the power of each pump source. Furthermore, the BP artificial neural network is employed to construct a nonlinear mapping relationship between the power matrix of the pump array and the thermally induced wavefront aberration. Lastly, the suppression of thermally induced wavefront distortion can be achieved by changing the power matrix of the pump array and obtaining the optimal pump light intensity distribution combined using the PSO algorithm. The minimal beam quality β can be obtained by optimally distributing the pumping light. Compared with the method of designing uniform pumping light into the gain medium, the theoretically computed single pass beam quality β value is optimized from 5.34 to 1.28. In this numerical analysis, experiments are conducted to validate the relationship between the thermally generated wavefront and certain pumping light distributions.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.357-364
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 안광학계의 성능평가 장비 개발을 위한 눈과 같은 광학계의 파면수차를 구현하는 프로그램을 개발하였다. 광학계의 파면수차를 재구성하기 위한 프로그램은 matlab을 사용하였으며, 파면수차 합수는 modal 방법에 의한 저니케 다항식을 사용하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 파면수차 재구성 프로그램을 검증하기 위해 cooke triplet 광학계의 저니케 계수(n=7)를 code V를 사용하여 계산하였으며, 이 결과를 본 연구에서 개발된 프로그램에 의해 계산된 결과와 비교하였다. 이 때 사용한 저니케 계수는 n=2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 그리고 10인 경우이며, sub-aperture 수는 1,253개이다. 개발된 프로그램의 검증결과 n=4 이상인 경우에는 본래의 파면수차와 거의 일치하였으며, n=7인 경우의 저니케 계수는 code V에서 계산된 저니케 계수와 동일함을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 연구 결과는 적응광학을 사용한 안광학계의 성능평가 장비 개발을 위한 핵심 기술로 사용될 것이다.