Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 50, Issue 7, 230040(2023)

Study of off-axis telescope misalignment correction method using out-of-focus spot

Siheng Tian1,2,3,4, Yongmei Huang2,3,4,5、*, Yangjie Xu2,3,4,5, Xinyuan Nan1, Qiongyan Wu2,3,4,5, Chunsheng Xiang2,3,4,5, and Wei Tang2,3,4,5
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, China
  • 2Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 3National Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 5School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chines Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Off-axis reflector telescopes are mainly used in space astronomy observation and other related fields. The image quality of off-axis two-inversion telescopes is sensitive to lens misalignment and is more difficult to calibrate using a laser interferometer after misalignment in an operating environment. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a method that uses the out-of-focus spot map of the system for infinity point targets and uses the Swin-Transformer network to calculate the amount of lateral misalignment of the secondary mirror. Theoretical calculations were used to determine the camera defocus positions that could avoid the multi-solution problem, and simulations were used to investigate the effect of different defocus amounts on calibration accuracy. The trained network uses a frame of out-of-focus spot map of the out-of-tune system to perform the estimation of the amount of out-of-tune. Both simulation analysis and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the method, which can achieve high accuracy and fast correction of out-of-tune telescope systems in the working environment.

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    Siheng Tian, Yongmei Huang, Yangjie Xu, Xinyuan Nan, Qiongyan Wu, Chunsheng Xiang, Wei Tang. Study of off-axis telescope misalignment correction method using out-of-focus spot[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2023, 50(7): 230040

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    Paper Information

    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 23, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 11, 2023

    Published Online: Sep. 25, 2023

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    DOI:10.12086/oee.2023.230040

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