Abstract
Large-aperture telescopes based on optical synthetic aperture imaging are investigated for recent high-resolution spaceborne observations. An enabling technique of aperture synthesis is a cophasing method to suppress a piston-tip-tilt error between sub-apertures. This paper proposes a scene-based cophasing technique using the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm, assuming application to high-resolution Earth observation. A significant advantage of the SPGD algorithm is a model-less cophasing capability based on extended scenes, but the simultaneous scene-based piston-tip-tilt correction between multiple apertures has not been demonstrated. In this paper, we developed a tabletop synthetic aperture imaging system with 37 sub-apertures and demonstrated extended-scene-based piston-tip-tilt control by optimizing applied voltages to 111 actuators simultaneously. The demonstration experiments used not only static scenes but also a time-varying dynamic scene for observation targets. In every measurement, the proposed scene-based approach reduced the initially defined piston-tip-tilt errors, and the image sharpness significantly improved, although the correction rate in the dynamic scene observation was slower. Finally, this paper discusses the influence of scene dynamics on image-based cophasing.
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