Using adaptive optics to enhance Michelson interferometry

Details Using adaptive optics to enhance Michelson interferometry Using adaptive optics to enhance Michelson interferometry

Nov 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apopt..31.6632l&link_type=abstract

Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935), vol. 31, no. 31, p. 6632-6636.

Physics

Optics

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Adaptive Optics, Image Enhancement, Michelson Interferometers, Wave Front Reconstruction, Signal To Noise Ratios, Telescopes

Scientific paper

The implementation of adaptive wave-front compensation techniques offers the potential to improve the detection sensitivity of a Michelson stellar interferometer. The improvement obtained depends on many factors, including the completeness of the wave-front corrections. Calculations based on simple theory are presented that predict the shot-noise-limited sensitivity enhancement as measured in limiting stellar visual magnitudes for adaptive optical systems offering varying degrees of spatial compensation. Even low-order wave-front corrections are shown to yield significant improvement in detection thresholds.

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