Abstract
Mathematical modelling methods have several limitations when addressing complex physics whose calculations require considerable amount of time. This is the case of adaptive optics, a series of techniques used to process and improve the resolution of astronomical images acquired from ground-based telescopes due to the aberrations introduced by the atmosphere. Usually, with adaptive optics the wavefront is measured with sensors and then reconstructed and corrected by means of a deformable mirror. An improvement in the reconstruction of the wavefront is presented in this work, using convolutional neural networks (CNN) for data obtained from the Tomographic Pupil Image Wavefront Sensor (TPI-WFS). The TPI-WFS is a modified curvature sensor, designed for measuring atmospheric turbulences with defocused wavefront images. CNNs are well-known techniques for its capacity to model and predict complex systems. The results obtained from the presented reconstructor, named Convolutional Neural Networks in Defocused Pupil Images (CRONOS), are compared with the results of Wave-Front Reconstruction (WFR) software, initially developed for the TPI-WFS measurements, based on the least-squares fit. The performance of both reconstruction techniques is tested for 153 Zernike modes and with simulated noise. In general, CRONOS showed better performance than the reconstruction from WFR in most of the turbulent profiles, with significant improvements found for the most turbulent profiles; overall, obtaining around 7% of improvements in wavefront restoration, and 18% of improvements in Strehl.
Subject
General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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