Passive imaging through the turbulent atmosphere - Fundamental limits on the spatial frequency resolution of a rotational shearing interferometer

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Jan 1978

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Optical Society of America, Journal, vol. 68, Jan. 1978, p. 67-77.

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Atmospheric Turbulence, Imaging Techniques, Noise Generators, Noise Spectra, Signal To Noise Ratios, Telescopes, Angular Resolution, Atmospheric Optics, Energy Conversion Efficiency, Irradiance, Photoelectric Emission, Radiation Detectors, Shot Noise, Turbulence Effects, Variance (Statistics)

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The signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio to be expected when a 180 deg rotationally shearing interferometer is used for image recovery at the diffraction limit of a large telescope is computed. The variance and covariance of the irradiance fluctuations at the detector array are shown to yield measures of the high-frequency spatial spectrum of the source. Four fundamental sources of noise are considered: temporal fluctuations of the source, space-time fluctuations of the atmosphere, shot noise in the detected photocurrents, and the effects of finite sampling. S/N is found to be directly proportional to the angular resolution of the telescope, the single-frame integration time, the square root of the number of frames, the cube of the operating wavelength, the quantum efficiency of the detector, and the average spectral irradiance from the source on the pupil. It is inversely proportional to the cube of the field angle subtended by the source (or part thereof) under study.

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