Performance Analysis of the Speckle Holography Image Reconstruction Technique

Abstract

In speckle holography, short exposures frames along with wave front measurements allow post processing image reconstruction. With speckle holography the amplitude of high spatial frequencies is boosted to allow resolution out to the diffraction limit of the telescope. To provide system parameters for the wave front sensor design, a software analysis program has been developed that provides the system transfer function as a function of the number and size of sensor subapertures and sensor noise. Trends in the ratio of the atmospheric coherence diameter to wave front subaperture size and the effect on the system transfer function have been obtained. Data obtained with the system transfer function algorithm depicts the criticality of the ratio of r sub o (atmospheric coherence diameter) to the wave front sensor subaperture size. For a ratio of r sub o to subaperture size of 2 to 1, the amplitude of high spatial frequencies are boosted to nearly 70% of the amplitude of lower spatial frequencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA243966

Entities

People

  • Rudolf N. Vonniederhausern

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Algorithms
  • Amplitude
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Detectors
  • Diameters
  • Diffraction
  • Distortion
  • Frequency
  • Fungi
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Intensity
  • Literature Surveys
  • Measurement
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Optics
  • Space Objects

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects