• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.375-382
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• 2007

The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor is composed of a lenslet array generating the spot images from which local slope is calculated and overall wavefront is measured. Generally the principle of wavefront reconstruction is that the spot centroid of each lenslet array is calculated from pixel intensity values in its subaperture, and then overall wavefront is reconstructed by the local slope of the wavefront obtained by deviations from reference positions. Hence the spot image of each lenslet array has to remain in its subaperture for exact measurement of the wavefront. However the spot of each lenslet array deviates from its subaperture area when a wavefront with large local slopes enters the Shack-Hartmann sensor. In this research, we propose a spot image searching method that finds the area of each measured spot image flexibly and determines the centroid of each spot in its area Also the algorithms that match these centroids to their reference points unequivocally, even if some of them are situated off the allocated subaperture, are proposed. Finally we verify the proposed algorithm with the test of a defocus measurement through experimental setup for the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor. It has been shown that the proposed algorithm can expand the dynamic range without additional devices.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.628-632
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• 2005

Remote sensing through atmospheric turbulence had been hard works for a long time, because wavefront distortion due to the Earth's atmospheric turbulence deteriorates image quality. But due to the appearance of adaptive optics, it is no longer difficult things. Adaptive optics is the technology to correct random optical wavefront distortions in real time. For past three decades, research on adaptive optics has been performed actively. Currently, most of newly built telescopes have adaptive optical systems. Adaptive optical system is typically composed of three parts, wavefront sensing, wavefront correction and control. In this work, the wavefront sensing technology for adaptive optical system is treated. More specifically, shearing interferometers and Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors are considered. Both of them are zonal wavefront sensors and measure the slope of a wavefront. . In this study, the shearing interferometer is made up of four right-angle prisms, whose relative sliding motions provide the lateral shearing and phase shifts necessary for wavefront measurement. Further, a special phase-measuring least-squares algorithm is adopted to compensate for the phase-shifting error caused by the variation in the thickness of the index-matching oil between the prisms. Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors are widely used in adaptive optics for wavefront sensing. It uses an array of identical positive lenslets. And each lenslet acts as a subaperture and produces spot image. Distortion of an input wavefront changes the location of spot image. And the slope of a wavefront is obtained by measuring this relative deviation of spot image. Structures and measuring algorithms of each sensor will be presented. Also, the results of wavefront measurement will be given. Using these wavefront sensing technology, an adaptive optical system will be built in the future.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.79.1-79.1
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• 2019

The Schwarzchild-Chang telescope is a confocal off-axis two mirror telescope with D = 50 mm, F = 100 mm and FOV = 8 ° × 8 °. Unlike common off-axis telescopes, the mirrors of the Schwarzchild-Chang telescope share their focal points to remove the linear astigmatism. In this poster, we show the alignment process of the Schwarzchild-Chang telescope with wavefront measurement and the sensitivity table method. Wavefront is measured using the Shack-Hartmann sensor, and Zernike polynomials are obtained from measured wavefront. Sensitivity table method is to calculate alignment errors from the Zernike coefficients. As a result, we evaluate tilt, decenter, and despace of each mirror of linear astigmatism-free con-focal off-axis system.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.251-257
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• 2002

The measuring resolution and speed for wavefronts are important to improve the performance of an adaptive optics system. In this paper, we propose a fast measuring algorithm with high resolution in the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor for an adaptive optics system. We designed ground isolated electrical devices whose differential data signals are used to control the deformable mirror and tip/tilt mirror for robust control. The conventional mass centroid algorithm in the Shack-Hartmann sensor to measure wavefront has been widely used and provided good measurement results. In this paper, the proposed fast measuring algorithm for measuring the wavefront combines the conventional mass centroid algorithm with a weighting factor. The weighting factor is a real value estimating the real center of mass in a wavefront spot image. This proposed wavefront measuring algorithm provided fast measurement results with high resolution from experimental tests.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.44-45
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• 2000

Shack-Hartmann 센서로부터 얻어진 기울기 정보로부터 파면을 재구성하고 분석하기 위해서는 각각의 점 영상에 대한 위상 구배로부터 파면의 위상을 재구성할 수 있는 수학적인 알고리즘이 필요하다. 파면의 위상을 재구성하기 위한 알고리즘은 Hudgin, Fried, Southwell이 제시한 세 가지 방법에 대한 연구결과가 가장 많이 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 CCD 카메라로부터 전송된 디지털 영상에서 각각의 점 영상의 중심점을 추출하여 점 영상의 이동정보로부터 수평과 수직방향의 기울기를 계산하고, 이를 바탕으로 최소제곱법(least-square fitting)을 사용하여 위상을 재구성하였다. 파면의 기울기 정보로부터 파면을 재구성하기 위해 기존의 이론을 바탕으로 행렬계산법을 사용하여 각각의 경우를 일반화하였고, 위상의 복구와 파면의 보정에 따른 해석적인 오차의 관계를 논의하였다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.336-337
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.32-33
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• 2002

적응광학계(adaptive optics system ; AO)는 파면을 파면측정장치로 측정하고 제어용 컴퓨터를 사용하여 파면보정장치를 구동함으로써 파면의 왜곡 및 수차를 보정하는 장치로, 최근 천문학 및 의료분야에서 활용되고 있다. 적응광학계의 제어는 파면을 영역별로 나누어 제어하는 zonal 방법과 모드로부터 제어하는 modal 방법이 있다. 본 연구에서는 파면 측정 장치(wavefront sensor ; WFS)인 Shack-Hartmann sensor로 측정된 파면의 기울기 정보로부터 Zernike 다항식의 계수를 계산하여 수차의 정보를 구현하고, 왜곡된 파면을 실시간으로 보정하기 위하여 Zernike 계수로부터 위상을 재구성한 후 보정장치인 변형거울을 제어하는 방법으로 파면을 보정하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.160-167
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• 2007

In this paper, we presented the development results of high speed wavefront sensor which is used in diagnosing the beam quality of He-Ne laser for adaptive optics system. The beam quality information of laser in AO system is necessarily required for diagnosing the optical components or correcting the distorted wavefront afterward. According to system requirements, normally, it is requested that there are high precision of measurement and real time processing speed. The developed wavefront sensor in this paper achieved maximum 30Hz of measurement rate and ${\lambda}/20(\;{@}\;{\lambda}=0.6328{\mu}m)$ of measurement precision in RMS. We also applied the developed into an experimental adaptive system and verified the performance of it by correcting the aberrated wavefront with a rate of 30Hz and $\lambda$/20 precision using the combination of the developed and PID control algorithm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.236-242
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• 2012

In general, such methods as interferometers or wavefront sensors are commonly used for testing of an optical system and optical components. In these cases, the surrounding environments are unlikely to affect the measurements. On the other hand, intraocular lenses of hydrophilic materials with special properties experience a certain difficulty in testing the optical properties. An intraocular lens is dried in the air, which causes deformation and changes the optical characteristics such as index of refraction and thickness. Thus, it is hard to measure the optical characteristics of an intraocular lens by using common methods. In this study, a special structure is used for measuring of the transmission wavefront aberration and effective focal length of an intraocular lens of hydrophilic materials by using a Shark-Hartmann sensor among the various measuring methods. As an application of this measuring method, this study shows a simple method to measure the index of refraction of unknown liquids with a plano-convex lens with a well known index of refraction. Also, this method is used to measure the optical properties of a plano-convex such as index of refraction and curvature by using a liquid with a well known index of refraction.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.67.1-67.1
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• 2020

Adaptive Optics (AO) is the technology for ground-based telescopes to overcome the interference caused by atmospheric turbulence. We are developing an AO system for the 1-m telescope at Seoul National University Observatory (SNUO). The seeing size of the SNUO is 2 arcseconds on average, and 0.85 arcseconds at best condition. Our system is based on MEMS deformable mirror and Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor. We developed the wavefront sensor using a cheap CMOS camera, and measured phase disturbance at SNUO. To verify the performance of the AO system, we designed an artificial phase disturber that produces similar scale phase error, measured at SNUO. We carried out laboratory tests in which the AO system measures and corrects the wavefront using the phase disturber and an F/6 light source, the same as that of SNUO telescope. The control system was developed in C++. The system performs closed-loop PI correction up to 100 Hz at a consumer-grade PC.