一种激光导引星自适应光学系统中激光上行到达角起伏测量方法的研究

激光导引星波前倾斜测量问题是限制自适应光学技术在天文领域广泛应用的关键问题之一。测量并改正激光上行到达角起伏是解决这一问题的有效方法。提出一种基于统计平均算法而不依赖自然导引星和辅助望远镜的测量方法,可以有效地测量出激光上行到达角起伏。利用具有子孔径阵列的哈特曼波前传感器对激光信标进行探测,选择部分子孔径进行倾斜量的统计平均以获得激光上行到达角起伏。仿真了统计平均算法的误差随子孔径数量的变化关系。结果表明,最小算法误差相对于望远镜全口径倾斜误差的下降比例与大气相干长度无关,而与望远镜口径有关。望远镜口径越大,算法误差相对于全口径倾斜误差下降越多。当望远镜口径为10 m时,最小算法误差下降为望远镜全口径倾斜误差的33%。     

自适应光学应用于月球激光测距中视场旋转对大气波前倾斜量提取的影响

自适应光学技术应用于月球激光测距试验中需要实时针对月面扩展源进行大气波前倾斜量的提取,望远镜在跟踪月亮的过程中存在月面本身相对望远镜的物方视场的旋转以及望远镜自身的运动所引起的像方视场的旋转,本文讨论了望远镜物方视场及像方视场旋转的规律以及其对大气波前倾斜量提取的影响。     

基于遗传算法的相位差法波前检测piston误差

光学综合孔径望远镜常常因为子望远镜间的失调大于1λ产生相位差,影响望远镜的分辨能力。基于相位差法的检测技术,可以检测出子望远镜间的微小失调误差。提出了相位差波前检测方法与遗传算法相结合,设计了一个相位差波前传感器,进行综合孔径望远系统的piston误差检测。在计算机模拟成像系统的基础上,仿真结果证明,基于遗传算法的相位差波前检测方法可以较准确地恢复波前相位,检测piston误差。     

斑点图的重心与波前倾斜

论述了斑点图重心与瞬时波前倾斜的关系,证明了斑点图重心位置与瞬时波前倾斜的一致性,这种一致性无论光瞳孔径是否大于大气相干长度均是成立的.这一结论并未严格受限于近场近似条件,结论的一个重要推论是:用重心对准的位移叠加法对斑点图进行统计后所得到的传递函数就是大气望远镜综合系统的平均短曝光传递函数,该推论对于自适应光学和高分辨率图像重建技术均具有非常重要的意义.     

山东大学威海天文台视宁度研究

山东大学威海天文台拥有口径1 m的赤道式反射光学望远镜,于2007年6月建成并投入使用。对天文台2008年、2009年的所有观测数据用编写的IRAF自动处理程序进行处理得到了大气视宁度值,对得到的大气视宁度进行了分析研究,并与天文台气象站获得的气象数据一起进行了分析。经分析得到了山东大学威海天文台的大气视宁度状况,同时得到了一些大气视宁度随气象因素变化的规律。     

主动光学—新一代大望远镜的关键技术

对主动光学技术在现代天文光学望远镜中的作用和工作原理作了较全面的介绍和评化,结合作者近十年的工作对薄镜面主动光学技术和拼接镜面主动光学技术的各个关键部分,如波前检测,波前拟合,校正力的确定,共焦和共同的检测作了较详细且深入的讨论和评述,也介绍了我国目前正在研制的同时采用薄镜面主动光学和拼接镜面主动光学技术的大天区面积多目标光纤光镜望远镜的主动光学系统。     

主动光学─新一代大望远镜的关键技术

对主动光学技术在现代天文光学望远镜中的作用和工作原理作了较全面的介绍和评论。结合作者近十年的工作对薄镜面主动光学技术和拼接镜面主动光学技术的各个关键部分,如波前检测、波前拟合、校正力的确定、共焦和共面的检测作了较详细且深入的讨论和评述．也介绍了我国目前正在研制的同时采用薄镜面主动光学和拼接镜面主动光学技术的大天区面积多目标光纤光谱望远镜的主动光学系统。     

基于四棱锥传感器的波前检测仿真设计

波前检测是天文望远镜自适应光学中的重要环节。四棱锥作为一种新型的波前检测元件,与其他传统的波前传感器相比,具有较高的灵敏度。特别是对于光干涉或拼接镜面望远镜而言,四棱锥波前传感器能够被用来检测子望远镜或子镜面之间的相对光程差,从而为干涉(或共相)的实现提供有效的检测信号。在分析四棱锥波前检测原理的基础上,阐述了单孔径条件下波前倾斜检测及双孔径干涉条件下相对光程差检测的软件仿真设计和阶段性成果,并简述了下一阶段的研究计划。     

天文选址的主要参数及测量方法

大口径地面光学和红外望远镜必须安装在具有良好大气条件的观测台站才能充分发挥其效率，因此仔细地选择天文观测站址是非常重要的。本文总结了选择一个好的站址需要考虑的各种参数，着重对其中两个最重要的参数即大气视宁度和大气积分水汽含量的各种测量方法作了介绍，最后提出了在天文选址中要注意的一些基本事项。     

三孔较差像运动测量仪计算和统计的进一步探讨

从天文选址的角度出发 ,介绍了影响望远镜光学成像质量的大气湍流的成因、特性以及它对星光波前的影响 ,进而对衡量大气宁静度的量度值———大气视宁度做了详细的叙述 ,包括其测量方法 ,以及目前国际天文选址界常用的较差像运动测量仪的测量原理 ,介绍了云台三孔较差像运动测量仪的光学和硬件结构组成部分 ,对图像处理 /采集软件中用Waldie法计算大气视宁度值与用Roddier法计算大气视宁度值的不同之处进行了理论的分析 ,编写了Roddier法相应软件 ,并用于实测中测量了大气视宁度的值 ,得到一些有意义的结果。     

Improvement in the performance of solar adaptive optics

Adaptive optics （AO）, which provides diffraction limited imaging over a field-of-view （FOV）, is a powerful technique for solar observation. In the tomographic approach, each wavefront sensor （WFS） is looking at a single reference that acts as a guide star. This allows a 3D reconstruction of the distorted wavefront to be made. The correction is applied by one or more deformable mirrors （DMs）. This technique benefits from information about atmospheric turbulence at different layers, which can be used to reconstruct the wavefront extremely well. With the assistance of the MAOS software package, we consider the tomography errors and WFS aliasing errors, and focus on how the performance of a solar telescope （pointing toward zenith） is related to atmospheric anisoplanatism. We theoretically quantify the performance of the to- mographic solar AO system. The results indicate that the tomographic AO system can improve the average Strehl ratio of a solar telescope in a 10＂ - 80＂ diameter FOV by only employing one DM conjugated to the telescope pupil. Furthermore, we discuss the effects of DM conjugate altitude on the correction achievable by the AO system by selecting two atmospheric models that differ mainly in terms of atmospheric prop- erties at ground level, and present the optimum DM conjugate altitudes for different observation sites.     

Atmospheric and adaptive optics

Atmospheric optics is the study of optical effects induced by the atmosphere on light propagating from distant sources. Of particular concern to astronomers is atmospheric turbulence, which limits the performance of ground-based telescopes. The past two decades have seen remarkable growth in the capabilities and performance of adaptive optics (AO) systems. These opto-mechanical systems actively compensate for the blurring effect of the Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. By sensing, and correcting, wavefront distortion introduced by atmospheric index-of-refraction variations, AO systems can produce images with resolution approaching the diffraction limit of the telescope at near-infrared wavelengths. This review highlights the physical processes and fundamental relations of atmospheric optics that are most relevant to astronomy, and discusses the techniques used to characterize atmospheric turbulence. The fundamentals of AO are then introduced and the many types of advanced AO systems that have been developed are described. The principles of each are outlined, and the performance and limitations are examined. Aspects of photometric and astrometric measurements of AO-corrected images are considered. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges related to current and future AO systems, particularly those that will equip the next generation of large, ground-based optical and infrared telescopes.     

SLODAR: measuring optical turbulence altitude with a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor

This paper discusses the use of Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensors to determine the vertical distribution of atmospheric optical turbulence above large telescopes. It is demonstrated that the turbulence altitude profile can be recovered reliably from time-averaged spatial cross-correlations of the local wavefront slopes for Shack–Hartmann observations of binary stars. The method, which is referred to as SLODAR, is analogous to the well known SCIDAR scintillation profiling technique, and a calibration against contemporaneous SCIDAR observations is shown. Hardware requirements are simplified relative to the scintillation method, and the number of suitable target objects is larger. The implementation of a Shack–Hartmann based turbulence monitor for use at the William Herschel Telescope is described. The system will be used to optimize adaptive optical observations at the telescope and to characterize anisoplanatic variations of the corrected point spread function.     

A Review of Daytime Atmospheric Optical Turbulence Profile Detection Technology

Atmospheric turbulence has been confirmed as the primary source affecting the quality of ground-based telescope image. To reduce the effect of atmosphere, a good site should be selected, and adaptive optics (AO) should be installed for the telescope. In general, the daytime atmospheric turbulence is more intense than that at night under the effect of solar radiation. Numerous solar telescopes have built AO systems worldwide. Conventional AO is only capable of improving the image quality in a small field of view, whereas it cannot satisfy the needs of a large field of view. The novel wide field adaptive optical system is capable of achieving a large field of view and high-resolution images, whereas the atmospheric turbulence profile should be accurately detected, which is the prerequisite and key parameter of the novel AO system. Moreover, the astronomical high-resolution technology in accordance with the turbulence imaging theory requires more detailed detection of turbulence. Accordingly, a brief review about the latest detection technology of the daytime optical turbulence profile is valuable for astronomical observations. Besides, the parameters of atmospheric turbulence are briefly introduced. Subsequently, SNODAR, SHABAR, MOSP, DIMM+, A-MASP, and other detection technologies of the stratified atmospheric turbulence for daytime are primarily presented, and the advantages and disadvantages of the different technologies are summarized.     

Wide-field Adaptive Optics correction using a single rotating laser guide star

The problem of providing Adaptive Optics (AO) correction over a wide field of view is one that can be alleviated by using multiple conjugate AO (MCAO), or a low-altitude Laser Guide Star (LGS) that is projected to an altitude below any high layer turbulence. A low-altitude LGS can only sense wavefront distortions induced by low-altitude turbulence, which is dominated by a strong boundary layer at the ground. Sensing only the wavefront from this layer provides an AO system with a more spatially invariant performance over the telescope field of view at the expense of overall correction. An alternative method for measuring a ground-layer biased wavefront using a single rotating LGS is presented together with a numerical analysis of the wide-field performance of an AO system utilizing such a LGS. System performance in H and K bands is predicted in terms of system Strehl ratio, which shows that uniform correction can be obtained over fields of view of 200 arcsec in diameter. The simulations also show that the on-axis performance of a LGS utilizing Rayleigh backscattered light will be improved.     

The GREGOR adaptive optics system

The new 1.5‐m German solar telescope GREGOR at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, is equipped with an integrated adaptive optics system. Although partly still in the commissioning phase, the system is already being used used for most science observations. It is designed to provide diffraction‐limited observations in the visible‐light regime for seeing better than 1.2″. We describe the AO system including the optical design, software, wavefront reconstruction, and performance (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

High-Spatial-Resolution Imaging Combining High-Order Adaptive Optics,Frame Selection,and Speckle Masking Reconstruction

We present, for the first time, high-spatial-resolution observations combining high-order adaptive optics (AO), frame selection, and post-facto image correction via speckle masking. The data analysis is based on observations of solar active region NOAA 10486 taken with the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) at the Sacramento Peak Observatory (SPO) of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) on 29 October 2003. The high Strehl ratio encountered in AO corrected short-exposure images provides highly improved signal-to-noise ratios leading to a superior recovery of the object’s Fourier phases. This allows reliable detection of small-scale solar features near the diffraction limit of the telescope. Speckle masking imaging provides access to high-order wavefront aberrations, which predominantly originate at high atmospheric layers and are only partially corrected by the AO system. In addition, the observations provided qualitative measures of the image correction away from the lock point of the AO system. We further present a brief inspection of the underlying imaging theory discussing the limitations and prospects of this multi-faceted image reconstruction approach in terms of the recovery of spatial information, photometric accuracy, and spectroscopic applications.The editors apologize to the authors: due to a misunderstanding during the editorial process, the publication of this paper has been delayed.     

月球激光测距的新技术方法研究

月球激光测距是国内外所瞩目的宏伟目标 ,代表着单光子探测技术的高峰。本论文的目的是探索提高激光测月回波光子数的新方法 ,进而增加激光测月成功的几率。其思路是源于一个新的想法 :在激光测月过程中引入大气波前倾斜量实时补偿的技术。首先介绍激光测月的现状和其难度所在 :回波光子数太少 ,基本上属于亚光子探测范畴。在现有技术条件下 ,本文对影响激光测月回波光子数的因素逐一进行分析讨论 ,提出应该把激光束截面能量分布和大气湍流效应包括进去。为此分析讨论了大气湍流和大气中光场的基本统计性质、激光束在大气中传输时所受大气湍流的影响以及大气湍流对激光测距的影响 ,得出大气湍流特别对激光测月有着明显影响的结论。在此基础上对传统的激光测距方程进行了修正 ,使其应用到激光测月时更符合真实的情况 ,从而指导补偿的进行。涉及到在激光测月中对受大气湍流而畸变的激光束进行补偿 ,本文抓住重点 ,通过分析看出对大气倾斜量的实时补偿是提高激光测月回波光子数的重要因素。结合激光测月以及云南天文台现有测距系统的实际情况 ,本文独创性地提出利用激光测月目标近旁一定大小区域的扩展面源探测与计算大气倾斜量 ,然后对激光测月中的激光束进行大气倾斜量实时补偿的新技术方法。在分析比较     

上海天文台1．56米望远镜斑点干涉成像实验进展

斑点干涉成像技术是克服大气湍流影响,提高地面大口径望远镜分辨本领的有效途径之一。该技术利用斑点相机拍摄一系列的短曝光像,使得大气湍流冻结,再经过图像处理获得高分辨率重建像。该技术设备简单,易于实现,很快在观测天文学中得到了广泛的应用,尤其是对双星的研究。首先回顾了天文高分辨率重建技术的发展,并介绍了相关研究成果。描述了几种典型的斑点干涉成像处理方法及其优缺点。对图像噪声类型及滤波方法进行了分析。在上海天文台1．56m望远镜上开展了双星斑点干涉观测实验,目标星等4～7mag,双星目标星等差小于2。分别采用斑点干涉术和迭代位移叠加法成功实现了双星目标的高分辨率成像,初步证明了在1．56m望远镜上进行斑点干涉成像实验,能够达到接近望远镜衍射极限的分辨率水平。