Error analysis of the piston estimation method in dispersed fringe sensor

Dispersed fringe sensor(DFS) is an important phasing sensor of next-generation optical astronomical telescopes. The measurement errors induced by the measurement noise of three piston estimation methods for the DFS including leastsquared fitting(LSF) method, frequency peak location(FPL) method and main peak position(MPP) method, are analyzed theoretically and validated experimentally in this paper. The experimental results coincide well with the theoretical analyses.The MPP, FPL, LSF are used respectively when the DFS operates with broadband light(central wavelength: 706 nm,bandwidth: 23 nm). The corresponding root mean square(RMS) value of estimated piston error can be achieved to be1 nm, 3 nm, 26 nm, respectively. Additionally, the range of DFS with the FPL can be more than 100 μm at the same time. The FPL method can work well both in coarse and fine phasing stages with acceptable accuracy, compared with LSF method and MPP method.     

The co-phasing detection method for sparse optical synthetic aperture systems

Co-phasing between different sub-apertures is important for sparse optical synthetic aperture telescope systems to achieve high-resolution imaging.For co-phasing detection in such a system,a new aspect of the system’s far-field interferometry is analysed and used to construct a novel method to detect piston errors.An optical setup is built to demonstrate the efficacy of this method.Experimental results show that the relative differences between measurements by this method and the criterion are less than 4%,and their residual detecting errors are about 0.01 λ for different piston errors,which makes the use of co-phasing detection within such a system promising.     

拼接主镜共相校正装置设计与测试

针对拼接主镜,开展子镜面共相校正装置的结构设计与性能测试.该装置整体采用粗调精调结合的两级式结构,主要由粗调级、精调级和横向卸载机构等部分构成.文章在基于有限元方法的装置整体设计与性能分析基础上,完成装置样件研制与基本性能测试.实测结果表明:该装置可平移±2.5 mm,校正精度约30 nm RMS(root mean ...     

相位平移误差与子孔径自身像差对稀疏光学合成孔径系统成像质量的综合影响分析

稀疏光学合成孔径系统成像质量的提高需要综合考虑子孔径间相位平移误差和子孔径自身像差的影响.本文基于稀疏光学合成孔径系统的光瞳结构,利用傅里叶光学基本原理对系统的斯特列尔比(Strehl Ratio,SR)进行了理论推导,得到了包含相位平移误差和子孔径自身像差分离形式的该类系统的SR指标的理论公式.以两子孔径系统为例,计算并分析了在相位平移误差校正后和未校正时,系统SR指标在不同子孔径像差下的变化规律,研究了相位平移误差与子孔径像差对系统SR指标的综合影响.结果阐明了该类系统的成像质量受相位平移误差和子孔径自身像差双重制约的物理机理,且表明只有将子孔径自身像差校正至某限度内时,相位平移误差的校正才对系统SR指标的提高有明显意义. 关键词： 稀疏光学合成孔径 相位平移误差 像差 成像质量     

四子孔径光学合成孔径成像系统空间排布性能分析

对三种空间排布结构的四子孔径光学合成孔径成像系统性能进行了分析.根据避免有效频率信息丢失的原则,分别计算了三种结构各自对应的空间排布限制条件.在此基础上得到了三种结构的有效频率覆盖范围和等效孔径.结果表明,当频率覆盖范围要求比较高时,只能选择三臂结构;当环形均匀结构和三臂结构具有相同的有效频率覆盖范围时,按照抑制次峰的选择标准,三臂结构要优于环形均匀结构;当环形优化结构和三臂结构具有相同的有效频率覆盖范围时,环形优化结构的点扩展函数次峰要明显大于三臂结构,而且环形优化结构的光学传递函数缺乏三臂结构的对称特性.     

一种基于远场图像的稀疏光学合成孔径系统共相探测新方法的仿真研究

稀疏光学合成孔径系统中,共相探测环节检测子孔径间的相位平移误差,为系统高分辨力的实现提供重要支持. 文章从基本的物理原理出发,分析了系统远场与相位平移误差的关系,并以此为基础,从数学上阐明了 相位平移误差对系统远场图像的影响机制.进一步,针对典型的两孔径系统,提出了一种新的基于远场相似度 的共相探测方法,并对其可行性、原理性偏差和动态范围进行了仿真分析.结果表明,该方法在原理上可实现 对两孔径系统相位平移误差的良好标定,且避免了一些既有方法可能存在的2π模糊性及无法判断符号的问题,具有一定的动态范围,为共相探测新技术的进一步研究提供了有效参考.