Rhodes, William T.

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    Lucky imaging and aperture synthesis with low-redundancy apertures
    (Optical Society of America, 2009-01-01)
    Ward, Jennifer E. 
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    Rhodes, William T. 
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    Sheridan, John T. 
    Lucky imaging, used with some success in astronomical and even horizontal-path imaging, relies on fleeting conditions of the atmosphere that allow momentary improvements in image quality, at least in portions of an image. Aperture synthesis allows a larger aperture and, thus, a higher-resolution imaging system to be synthesized through the superposition of image spatial-frequency components gathered by cooperative combinations of smaller subapertures. Acombination of lucky imaging and aperture synthesis strengthens both methods for obtaining improved images through the turbulent atmosphere.We realize the lucky imaging condition appropriate for aperture synthesis imaging for a pair of rectangular subapertures and demonstrate that this condition occurs when the signal energy associated with bandpass spatial-frequency components achieves its maximum value.
      472Scopus© Citations 8
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    Fundamental diffraction limitations in a paraxial 4-f imaging system with coherent and incoherent illumination
    (Optical Society of America, 2007-07-01)
    Kelly, Damien P. 
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    Sheridan, John T. 
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    Rhodes, William T. 
    In the usual model of an imaging system, only the effects of the aperture stop are considered in determining diffraction-limited system performance. In fact, diffraction at other stops—those associated with different lens elements, for example—can also affect system performance and cause the imaging to be space variant, even in the absence of vignetting in the conventional ray optics sense. For the 4-f imaging system investigated in this paper, the severity of the space variance depends on the relative sizes of the two lens stops and the aperture stops. If the diameters of the lenses are equal, the aperture of the first lens has a greater effect on system performance than does that of the second.
      473Scopus© Citations 14