Simulation of Low Light Level Adaptive Optics Systems

Abstract

This report results from a contract tasking University of Kent as follows: The contractor will provide documentation for the computer program developed in contract F61775-98-WE079, and develop optimum adaptive optic designs for low-light-level applications that will handle generation of time-evolving turbulent wavefronts, adjustment of wind speed of the turbulent layers, adjustment of key observational parameters such as the iso-planatic patch size, and the ability to evaluate match filtering techniques for reducing mean-square residual wavefront error.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 28, 2000
Accession Number
ADA380158

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Solomon

Organizations

  • University of Kent

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffraction
  • Digital Filters
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Inverse Problems
  • Low Light Levels
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Poisson Equation
  • Simulations
  • Wavefronts

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers