Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 12, (2025)

High-Accuracy Direct Wavefront Reconstruction with 2 × 2 Lens Array [Early Posting]

Feng Jiahao, Yang Chenglin, li mingxing, Wu Jingjing, wang chen, zhou ying, hu lifa
Author Affiliations
  • Jiangnan University
  • Xi''''an Institute of Applied Optics
  • China
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    Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS) faces an intrinsic trade-off between detection sensitivity and microlens spatial sampling. We present an 'Ultra-Compact Sensing—AI Decoding' solution integrating Four-Quadrant SHWFS (FQ-SHWFS) with Quadrant Intensity Encoding Network (QIE-Net). To our knowledge, it is the first scheme achieving direct high-precision wavefront reconstruction under extremely low spatial sampling resolution. Simulations and experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a residual wavefront RMS of approximately 0.01μm, with a limiting magnitude improvement of over 4mag compared to conventional SHWFS. Knowledge distillation optimizes computational efficiency while maintaining accuracy, enabling 3.98ms deep-learning-based direct wavefront reconstruction for real-time adaptive optics.

    Paper Information

    Manuscript Accepted: Jun. 19, 2025

    Posted: Jul. 28, 2025

    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.121202