Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 42, Issue 16, 1611001(2022)

Polarization Aberration Analysis and Compensation of Off-Axis Optical System with Digital Micro-Mirror Device

Kaikai Wang1,3, Chao Wang1,2,3、*, Haodong Shi1, Zhuang Liu1, Qiang Fu1, Jiayu Wang1,3, Yingchao Li1, and Huilin Jiang1
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  • 1National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Space Optoelectronics Technology, Jilin Key Laboratory of Space Optoelectronics Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, Jilin , China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, Jilin , China
  • 3School of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, Jilin , China
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    Polarization aberration will affect the accuracy of polarization measurement and the polarization imaging effect of an off-axis optical imaging system, and thus it is necessary to calibrate and compensate for it. On the basis of three-dimensional polarization ray tracing, this study analyzes the polarization aberration of the coded super-resolution off-axis optical imaging system with a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) in different fields of view and proposes a method of polarization compensation by adding a linear attenuator (LD) and a linear retarder (LR) in the optical path near DMD. The calculations indicate that the maximum diattenuation and the maximum phase retardance introduced by the DMD surface are 1.43×10-3 and 9.52×10-3 rad, respectively, while the maximum diattenuation and the maximum phase retardance introduced by the overall optical system are 2.32×10-3 and 1.55×10-2 rad, respectively. Hence, the polarization aberration introduced by DMD accounts for more than 60% of that introduced by the whole system. Then, this paper compares the polarization aberration distributions, Jones pupils, and polarization imaging simulations of the overall optical system before and after polarization compensation. The results reveal that after an appropriate weak polarizer is used for compensation, the diattenuation and phase retardance are reduced by about a half, with the Jones matrix close to the unit matrix and the crosstalk phenomenon in polarization imaging alleviated significantly. It can be concluded that DMD introduces severe polarization aberration, but the utilization of the LD and LR in the optical path near DMD can simply and effectively compensate for the polarization.

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    Kaikai Wang, Chao Wang, Haodong Shi, Zhuang Liu, Qiang Fu, Jiayu Wang, Yingchao Li, Huilin Jiang. Polarization Aberration Analysis and Compensation of Off-Axis Optical System with Digital Micro-Mirror Device[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(16): 1611001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems

    Received: Dec. 23, 2021

    Accepted: Mar. 11, 2022

    Published Online: Aug. 4, 2022

    The Author Email: Wang Chao (nicklo19992009@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202242.1611001

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