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Adaptive Optics: Methods and Applications
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Adaptive Optics: Methods and Applications

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 1529

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Sicong He

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School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: adaptive optics in microscopy; nonlinear optical microscopy; multiphoton fluorescence microscopy; deep tissue imaging; retinal imaging; computational optical imaging

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Since the first scientific application of Adaptive Optics technology, with COME-ON (Rigault et al., A&A, 250, 280 (1991)) on the 3.6 m ESO telescope in 1989, the scientific results enabled by this technology have grown dramatically. Currently, all major telescopes (VLT, Keck, CFHT, Gemini, Subaru, LBT) are equipped with Adaptive Optics systems, which make future giant telescopes feasible, such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The aim of Adaptive Optics correction is to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion and concentrate the light of the Point Spread Function (PSF) to a nearly diffraction-limited core to improve the angular resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio.

Currently, Adaptive Optics has found interesting applications in other domains outside of astronomy, such as laser communication systems, microscopy, and retinal imaging systems. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together leading experts worldwide that employ cutting-edge adaptive optics technologies for applications in a variety of research fields.

Dr. Sicong He
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • adaptive optics in astronomical instrumentation
  • adaptive optics for microscopy
  • adaptive optics applications
  • existing and future adaptive optics systems
  • artificial beacons for wavefront sensing
  • machine learning in adaptive optics
  • control algorithms
  • adaptive optics systems modeling and simulations
  • wavefront sensing and sensors
  • wavefront correction and correctors
  • real-time control systems
  • characterization and forecasting of wavefront disturbances
  • post-processing for AO-corrected instrument data

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Adaptive Optics Methods to Rat Eye Properties: Impact of Pupil Diameter on Wavefront Detection
by Wen Kong, Jiangjie Huang, Yi He and Guohua Shi
Photonics 2024, 11(4), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11040359 - 12 Apr 2024
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Achieving a high-quality wavefront sensing light spot and accurate wavefront estimation of the rat eye is still challenging due to its large ocular aberrations and the back reflections from fundus multilayer. Simulation and experiments of rat eye wavefront sensing are conducted to improve [...] Read more.
Achieving a high-quality wavefront sensing light spot and accurate wavefront estimation of the rat eye is still challenging due to its large ocular aberrations and the back reflections from fundus multilayer. Simulation and experiments of rat eye wavefront sensing are conducted to improve the quality of sensing spot for accurate wavefront estimation. The simulation results show that a smaller pupil diameter leads to a high quality of wavefront sensing light spot, and the model rat eye reaches diffractive limitation when the pupil diameter is 0.8 mm. However, the experimental results indicate a different conclusion. Consistent with the simulation results, the quality of the sensing light spot significantly improves when the pupil diameter decreases from 3.6 mm to 1.8 mm. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the sensing light spots decreases from 77.36 ± 8.95 μm to 26.78 ± 3.25 μm, and the calculated Strehl ratio increases from 0.007 to 0.396. As the pupil diameter continues to decrease to 1.2 mm, the sensing spot and calculated Strehl ratio continue to improve, while the detected low-order aberrations exhibit a significant increase in both value and variance. This observation suggests that using a half-filled pupil for rat wavefront detection may be a more favorable choice, which assists in obtaining high-resolution retinal images in the rat eye using adaptive optics technology. Full article
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Experimental Study on Partially Coherent Optical Coherent Detection
by Jingyuan Liang, Yi Mu, Xizheng Ke and Meimiao Han
Photonics 2024, 11(2), 160; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11020160 - 07 Feb 2024
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When coherent detection occurs, the polarization mismatch between signal light and local oscillator light can reduce the efficiency of coherent detection. This article combines the principle of optical mixers to derive the relationship between the polarization state and mixing efficiency of signal light [...] Read more.
When coherent detection occurs, the polarization mismatch between signal light and local oscillator light can reduce the efficiency of coherent detection. This article combines the principle of optical mixers to derive the relationship between the polarization state and mixing efficiency of signal light and local oscillator light, and builds an experimental platform for the coherent detection of a partially coherent electromagnetic Gaussian Schell beam (EGSM). Polarization devices are used to regulate the polarization state of the signal EGSM light and local oscillator EGSM light, and different polarization states of the EGSM beams are generated. When the output power of the signal light is constant, the mixing efficiency is measured according to the output amplitude of the intermediate frequency signal. This experiment found that when the signal light is in a linearly polarized state and the local oscillator light is in a linearly polarized state, a circularly polarized state, or an elliptically polarized state, the amplitude of the intermediate frequency signal is 369.6 mv, 146.6 mv, or 92.1 mv, respectively. When the signal light is in a circularly polarized state, the amplitude of the intermediate frequency signal is 446.4 mv, 504.0 mv, or 159.2 mv, respectively. When the signal light is in an elliptical polarization state, the amplitude of the intermediate frequency signal is 94.4 mv, 124.0 mv, or 254.8 mv, respectively. Full article
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