Zernike Piston Statistics in Turbulent Multi-Aperture Optical Systems

Abstract

There is currently a lack of research into how the atmosphere effects Zernike piston. This Zernike piston is a coefficient related to the average phase delay of a wave. Usually Zernike piston can be ignored over a single aperture because it is merely a delay added to the entire wavefront. For multi-aperture interferometers though piston cannot be ignored. The statistics of Zernike piston could supplement and improve atmospheric monitoring, adaptive optics, stellar interferometers, and fringe tracking. This research will focus on developing a statistical model for Zernike piston introduced by atmospheric turbulence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 2020
Accession Number
AD1097734

Entities

People

  • Joshua J. Garretson

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Air Force
  • Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Coefficients
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Governments
  • Interferometers
  • Interferometry
  • Literature Surveys
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Michelson Interferometers
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Space Situational Awareness
  • Statistics
  • Turbulence
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.