Compact Adaptive Optics Systems 2 (CAOS-II)

Abstract

This report results from a contract tasking Heriot-Watt University as follows: The contractor will (1) determine the conditions for construction of a null sensor using the phase-diversity principle and implemented using a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a single detector plane; (2) investigate and, if possible, quantify necessary conditions for the use of a null sensor based on phase-diversity and the use of DOEs; (3) investigate whether a null sensor based on phase diversity and DOEs can be used to separate isoplanatic and anisoplanatic wavefront distortions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 21, 2003
Accession Number
ADA425141

Entities

People

  • Alan H. Greenaway

Organizations

  • Heriot-Watt University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulations
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Distortion
  • Equations
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Patent Applications
  • Patents
  • Physics
  • Simulations
  • Universities
  • Wavefronts

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.