Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 6, 601002(2014)
Laboratory Simulation of Atmosphere Turbulence for Fourier Telescopy
Fourier telescopy is a sort of highresolution imaging technology for deep space object which is very small and dim. To verify the atmosphere turbulence net effect on Fourier telescope, the experimental demonstrations of atmosphere turbulence simulation were performed in a lab. Based on the laboratory system of threebeam Fourier telescope, the scintillation and the phase jitter were simulated by changing the radiofrequency driver output power and the instantaneous frequency, respectively. The detail of the experimental principle was presented, and the relation between the turbulent intensity and experimental variable was built. For different cases with random scintillation and phase jitter in weak turbulence, the experiments were conducted for single beam and three beams, and all the results’ Strehl ratio were calculated. The experimental results indicate that, with single beam holding turbulence, there are no obvious change for all the reconstructed image; with three beams adding turbulence, the image quality of the Fourier telescope system is few influenced by weak scintillation, but is severe affected by phase jitter. As indicated, removing the phase and light intensity jitter effect is a key point of improving the image reconstruction arithmetic.
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ZENG Zhihong, LUO Xiujuan, WANG Baofeng, XIA Aili, CHENG Zhiyuan, SI Qingdan. Laboratory Simulation of Atmosphere Turbulence for Fourier Telescopy[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2014, 43(6): 601002
Received: Oct. 17, 2013
Accepted: --
Published Online: Aug. 18, 2014
The Author Email: Zhihong ZENG (zzhlsg@163.com)