Experimental validation of extended image reconstruction using bispectral speckle interferometry

Taylor W. Lawrence; J. Patrick Fitch; Dennis M. Goodman; Norbert A. Massie; Robert J. Sherwood

doi:10.1117/12.19323

1 August 1990 Experimental validation of extended image reconstruction using bispectral speckle interferometry

Taylor W. Lawrence, J. Patrick Fitch, Dennis M. Goodman, Norbert A. Massie, Robert J. Sherwood

Proceedings Volume 1237, Amplitude and Intensity Spatial Interferometry; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19323
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation for the 21st Century, 1990, Tucson, AZ, United States

Abstract

Results will be presented from a horizontal path imaging experiment in which we used a 0.5 meter telescope focused on a target located at a range of 1 .2 km. The targets included various extended objects from simple binary letters to extended representations of satellites with grey scale and size variations. Imaging at a center wavelength of 0.7 microns, we found an atmospheric degradation factor of Dir0 = 17, on average. We used a slow read-rate bare CCD detector and thus had to effectively deal with additive noise in the speckle measurements. Our image reconstruction algorithms are based on the use of the complex bispectrum and we have demonstrated diffraction-limited imaging down to light levels approaching a few photons per speckle per resolution area. We have paid careful attention to the effects of additive noise on the reconstruction process and shown that they can be adequately overcome.

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Taylor W. Lawrence, J. Patrick Fitch, Dennis M. Goodman, Norbert A. Massie, and Robert J. Sherwood "Experimental validation of extended image reconstruction using bispectral speckle interferometry", Proc. SPIE 1237, Amplitude and Intensity Spatial Interferometry, (1 August 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19323

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