Experiments on speckle imaging using projection methods

Conference Paper (2011)
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M. Loktev (Flexible Optical B.V.)

G. Vdovin (Flexible Optical B.V.)

O. Soloviev (Flexible Optical B.V.)

S. Savenko (Flexible Optical B.V.)

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893462 Final published version
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Publication Year
2011
Language
English
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Article number
81650M
ISBN (print)
9780819487759
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Unconventional Imaging, Wavefront Sensing, and Adaptive Coded Aperture Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensor Systems (2011-08-21 - 2011-08-25), San Diego, CA, United States
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Abstract

In this paper we present some experimental results of speckle imaging for near-diffraction-limited observation of ground-based scenery and astronomical objects through atmospheric turbulence. The method of alternating projections onto convex sets is used for iterative reconstruction of the point-spread function (PSF), combined with Wiener filtering for deconvolution and several pre-processing techniques. A modification of the optical system with aperture segmentation is considered. The results of imaging on a horizontal path and astronomical imaging are reported and compared with time averaged and best frame images. Apparent image improvement is demonstrated in a field much wider than the isoplanatic patch size.