Adaptive Phase Distortion Correction in Strong Speckle-Modulation Conditions

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-15-2002

Publication Source

Optics Letters

Abstract

We introduce beam-quality metrics for adaptive wave-front control that permit estimation of the degree of laser beam energy concentration on a remotely located extended object based upon the backscattered wave intensity distribution at the receiver. A 37-control-channel adaptive optics system with phase correction of the output wave capable of operating in the presence of speckle-field-induced strong intensity modulation is presented. System operation is based on optimization of the speckle-field-based metric by the stochastic parallel gradient descent technique. Results demonstrate that adaptive wave-front correction using speckle-field-based beam-quality metrics can significantly improve laser beam concentration on extended objects.

Inclusive pages

2155-2157

ISBN/ISSN

0146-9592

Comments

One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modifications of the content of this paper are prohibited.

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Publisher

Optical Society of America

Volume

27

Issue

24

Peer Reviewed

yes


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