Yusuke Saita

Holographic Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor based on the correlation peak displacement detection method for wavefront sensing with large dynamic range

A method to expand the dynamic range for a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS) is proposed. An SHWFS consists of a microlens array and an image sensor, and it has been widely used to measure the wavefront aberration of a lightwave in various fields. However, a very large aberrated wave cannot be correctly measured due to the finite dynamic range that depends on the diameter of each microlens. The proposed method enables an SHWFS to measure wavefronts with larger aberrations by applying holography and pattern matching technologies. For measurement of a spherical wave, the proposed method is compared with a conventional one by numerical simulations and optical experiments. Their results confirm the performance of the proposed method.

Design of Reference Pattern and Input Phase Mask for Coaxial Holographic Memory

Design methods of a reference pattern and an input phase mask for a coaxial holographic memory are described. By the proposed method, it is expected that the useless consumption of the dynamic range of a recording medium will decrease, and the light efficiency and the interference efficiency between the signal beam and the reference beam will be improved. A reference pattern and an input phase mask are designed by a simulated annealing. The performance of the proposed design method is confirmed by numerical simulations and optical experiments. Furthermore, the holographic memory system using both the designed reference pattern and the designed input phase mask is also confirmed by numerical simulations and optical experiments.

Design method of input phase mask to improve light use efficiency and reconstructed image quality for holographic memory

A design method of an input phase mask for holographic memory is proposed. In the method, a modification of a design procedure and another restraint condition are applied to our conventional design method. The light use efficiency and the quality of a reconstructed image are improved. The performance of an input phase mask designed by the method is confirmed by numerical simulations. Finally, a suitable design condition of an input phase mask is determined from simulation results.

Improvement of Image Quality of 3D Display by Using Optimized Binary Phase Modulation and Intensity Accumulation

To improve the reconstructed image quality in a 3D display system using binary phase modulator, we propose two successive methods that are a modified iterative Fresnel algorithm for designing the binary phase pattern and the intensity addition for the speckle reduction. Numerical and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed methods by increasing the number of iteration for optimizing the binary phase distribution and the number of intensity addition.

Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor with large dynamic range by adaptive spot search method

A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS) that consists of a microlens array and an image sensor has been used to measure the wavefront aberrations of human eyes. However, a conventional SHWFS has finite dynamic range depending on the diameter of the each microlens. The dynamic range cannot be easily expanded without a decrease of the spatial resolution. In this study, an adaptive spot search method to expand the dynamic range of an SHWFS is proposed. In the proposed method, spots are searched with the help of their approximate displacements measured with low spatial resolution and large dynamic range. By the proposed method, a wavefront can be correctly measured even if the spot is beyond the detection area. The adaptive spot search method is realized by using the special microlens array that generates both spots and discriminable patterns. The proposed method enables expanding the dynamic range of an SHWFS with a single shot and short processing time. The performance of the proposed method is compared with that of a conventional SHWFS by optical experiments. Furthermore, the dynamic range of the proposed method is quantitatively evaluated by numerical simulations.

Wavefront measurement with large dynamic range using holographic Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

The proposed holographic Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor can measure a wavefront aberration with large dynamic range. It is realized by introducing a holographic optical element and pattern matching technique. To confirm the flexibility of the sensor, measurements of the wavefronts with various aberrations are numerically demonstrated.

Expansion of dynamic range in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor using dual microlens array

A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS) which consists of a microlens array and an image sensor has been used to measure the wavefront aberrations in various fields owing to its advantages such as simple configuration. However, a conventional SHWFS has the finite dynamic range. The dynamic range cannot be expanded without sacrificing the spatial resolution and the sensitivity in a conventional SHWFS. In this study, the SHWFS using a dual microlens array to solve the problem is proposed. In the proposed method, an astigmatic microlens is arranged at the center of a group of 2 x 2 spherical microlenses. A pattern image including spots and linear patterns is obtained at the focal plane by the dual microlens array. The pattern image can be separated into two images as if two microlens array with different diameter were used by discriminating spots from linear patterns with the pattern matching technique. The proposed method enables to expand the dynamic range of an SHWFS by using the separated two images. The performance of the proposed method is confirmed by the numerical simulation for measuring a spherical wave.