Title

Anisoplanatic Imaging Through Turbulent Media: Image Recovery by Local Information Fusion from a Set of Short-exposure Images

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2001

Publication Source

Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Abstract

A wide-field-of-view white-light imaging experiment with artificially generated turbulence layers located between the extended object and the imaging system is described. Relocation of the turbulence sources along the imaging path allowed the creation of controllable anisoplanatic effects. We demonstrate that the recently proposed synthetic imaging technique [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 1623 (1999)] may result in substantial improvement in image quality for highly anisoplanatic conditions. It is shown that for multisource objects located at different distances the processing of turbulence-degraded short-exposure images may lead to a synthetic image that has an image quality superior to that of the undistorted image obtained in the absence of turbulence (turbulence-induced image quality enhancement).

Inclusive pages

1312-1324

ISBN/ISSN

1084-7529

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

18

Issue

6

Peer Reviewed

yes

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