Image Sharpness and Beam Focus VLSI Sensors for Adaptive Optics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2002
Publication Source
IEEE Sensors Journal
Abstract
High-resolution wavefront control for adaptive optics requires accurate sensing of a measure of optical quality. We present two analog very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) image-plane sensors that supply real-time metrics of image and beam quality, for applications in imaging and line-of-sight laser communication. The image metric VLSI sensor quantifies sharpness of the received image in terms of average rectified spatial gradients. The beam metric VLSI sensor returns first and second order spatial moments of the received laser beam to quantify centroid and width. Closed-loop wavefront control of a laser beam through turbulence is demonstrated using a spatial phase modulator and analog VLSI controller that performs stochastic parallel gradient descent of the beam width metric.
Inclusive pages
680–690
ISBN/ISSN
1530-437X
Copyright
Copyright © 2002, IEEE
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Volume
2
Issue
6
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Cohen, Marc; Cauwenberghs, Gert; and Vorontsov, Mikhail, "Image Sharpness and Beam Focus VLSI Sensors for Adaptive Optics" (2002). Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications. 112.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eop_fac_pub/112
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