Focal-plane wavefront sensing with high-order adaptive optics systems

We investigate methods to calibrate the non-common path aberrations at an adaptive optics system having a wavefront-correcting device working with an extremely high resolution (larger than 150x150 correcting elements). We use focal-plane images collected successively, the corresponding phase-diversity information and numerically efficient...

Fast & furious focal-plane wavefront sensing

We present two complementary algorithms suitable for using focal-plane measurements to control a wavefront corrector with an extremely high-spatial resolution. The algorithms use linear approximations to iteratively minimize the aberrations seen by the focal-plane camera. The first algorithm, Fast & Furious (FF), uses a weak-aberration...

Calibrating a high-Esolution wavefront corrector with a static focal-Plane camera

We present a method to calibrate a high-resolution wavefront (WF)-correcting device with a single, static camera, located in the focal-plane; no moving of any component is needed. The method is based on a localized diversity and differential optical transfer functions to compute both the phase and amplitude in the pupil plane located upstream of...

High-order wavefront correction with a spatial light modulator: Calibrations with dOTF method

We show how differential optical transfer function (dOTF) method is used to calibrate an adaptive optics setup using a spatial light modulator. SLM response, rotation and registration are measured sufficiently accurately for high-order WF correction. © OSA 2013.

Iterative linear focal-plane wavefront correction

We propose an efficient approximation to the nonlinear phase diversity (PD) method for wavefront reconstruction and correction from intensity measurements with potential of being used in real-time applications. The new iterative linear phase diversity (ILPD) method assumes that the residual phase aberration is small and makes use of a first...

Experimental validation of optimization concepts for focal-plane image processing with adaptive optics

We show experimental results demonstrating the feasibility of an extremely fast sequential phase-diversity (SPD) algorithm for point sources. The algorithm can be implemented on a typical adaptive optics (AO) system to improve the wavefront reconstruction beyond the capabilities of a wavefront sensor by using the information from the imaging...

Potential of phase-diversity for metrology of active instruments

We investigate the potential of phase-diversity (PD) and Gerchberg-Saxton (GS) algorithms in the calibration of active instruments. A set of images is recorded with the focal-plane scientific camera, each image having a known and unique defocus. The phase-retrieval algorithms are used, with those images, to estimate the non-common path...

Joint optimization of phase diversity and adaptive optics: demonstration of potential

We study different possibilities to use adaptive optics (AO) and phase diversity (PD) together in a jointly optimized system. The potential of the joint system is demonstrated through numerical simulations. We find that the most significant benefits are obtained from the improved deconvolution of AO-corrected wavefronts and the additional...

Extremely fast focal-plane wavefront sensing for extreme adaptive optics

We present a promising approach to the extremely fast sensing and correction of small wavefront errors in adaptive optics systems. As our algorithm's computational complexity is roughly proportional to the number of actuators, it is particularly suitable to systems with 10,000 to 100,000 actuators. Our approach is based on sequential phase...

Joint-optimization of phase-diversity and adaptive optics

We demonstrate the potential of joint-optimization of adaptive optics (AO) and phase-diversity (PD). The wavefront sensor information reduces computational costs by a factor of 20, and PD can reconstruct much better the AO corrected images.