• Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.135-138
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• 2007

Using a Shack-Hartmann sensor and sub-wavelength sized pinhole point source, we develope an optical testing system that measures the wavefront error of high numerical aperture and small sized optical components. The subwavelength sized pinhole generates perfect spherical waves with large diffraction angle and this makes possible to test high numerical aperture optics. The Shack-Hartmann sensor reconstructs the wavefront and calculates the aberrations. We make a home-made reference plane wave source which generates nearly perfect plane waves and the calibration with this plane source gives the overall uncertainty of the optical testing system 0.010 $\lambda$ rms.

• 정보저장시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.160-161
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• 2005

Using a Shack-Hartmann sensor, we construct an optical testing system measuring the wavefront error of small optical components. The systematic error of the sensor is compensated with a reference plane-wave system that produces almost perfect plane waves. Several types of lenses are tested using a point source that generates spherical waves emitted from a pinhole. The results of the optical testing obtained with the Shack- Hartman sensor are compared with those measured with Zygo interferometer.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.528-530
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a new and practical method for achieving real-time wavefront measurement, dramatically increasing the resolution, dynamic range of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and improving the wavefront reconstruction quality. In proposal method, a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) for the generation of an array of Fresnel microlenses is use instead of the static microlens array of the conventional Shack-Hartmann type sensor. An off-axis holographic microlens array is designed instead of the normal microlens array to increase the effective array and then the dynamic range. The focus properties of the off-axis lens are studied.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.132-133
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.08a
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• pp.218-219
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.202-203
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.156-157
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• 2003

적응광학(AO； adaptive optics) 시스템의 중요한 구성요소인 파면측정 장치(wavefront sensor)는 변형거울(deformable mirror)과 제어용 컴퓨터에 연결되어 파면보정을 실시간으로 처리할 수 있도록 파면의 왜곡정보를 제공한다. 제작된 Shack-Hartmann 파면측정 장치는 배열렌즈(array lens), 빔 축소 광학계, CCD 카메라 등으로 구성되어있는데, 측정된 파면의 정보는 영상처리 보드가 내장된 제어용 컴퓨터를 사용하여 분석한 뒤 실시간으로 보정장치를 구동할 수 있도록 설계되었다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.383-390
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• 2006

The SharkHartmann wavefront sensors are the most popular devices to measure wavefront in the field of adaptive optics. The Shack-Hartmann sensors measure the centroids of spot irradiance distribution formed by each corresponding micro-lens. The centroids are linearly proportional to the local mean slopes of the wavefront defined within the corresponding sub-aperture. The wavefront is then reconstructed from the evaluated local mean slopes. The uncertainty of the Shack-Hartmann sensor is caused by various factors including the detector noise, the limited size of the detector, the magnitude and profile of spot irradiance distribution, etc. This paper investigates the noise propagation in two major centroid evaluation algorithms through computer simulation; 1st order moments of the irradiance algorithms i.e. center of gravity algorithm, and correlation algorithm. First, the center of gravity algorithm is shown to have relatively large dependence on the magnitudes of noises and the shape & size of irradiance sidelobes, whose effects are also shown to be minimized by optimal thresholding. Second, the correlation algorithm is shown to be robust over those effects, while its measurement accuracy is vulnerable to the size variation of the reference spot. The investigation is finally confirmed by experimental measurements of defocus wavefront aberrations using a Shack-Hartmann sensor using those two algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.262-263
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• 2005

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

Shack-Hartmann sensors are widely employed as a wavefront measuring device in various applications. Adaptive optics is one of the major applications. Since an adaptive optics system should be operated in real-time, high-speed wavefront sensing is essential. In high-speed operation, integration time of an image detector is very short. In this case, noises such as readout noise and photon noise greatly influence the accuracy of wavefront sensing. Therefore a fast and noise-insensitive centroid finding algorithm is required for the real-time wavefront sensing. In this paper, the multi-resolution correlation method is proposed. By employing multi-resolution images, this method greatly reduces the computation time when compared to the fast Fourier transform (FFT) correlation method. The verification is performed through the computational simulation. In this paper, the center of mass method, correlation method and multi-resolution correlation method are employed to compare the measurement accuracy of the centroid finding algorithms. The accuracy of a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor using the proposed algorithm is proved to be comparable to that of the conventional correlation method.