Abstract

The significant atmospheric effects in stellar speckle interferometry may be simulated in a controlled laboratory experiment by imaging through appropriate photographic phase plates. Coupling such an imaging facility to a speckle camera with a video detector and processing image data by digital means have aided in technique and instrument development and verification. Laboratory results for system transfer functions and nonisoplanatic effects are presented.

© 1979 Optical Society of America

Laboratory-simulated speckle interferometry*

Arthur M. Schneiderman, Paul F. Kellen, and Merlin G. Miller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 65(11) 1287-1291 (1975)

Computer simulation of a method for object reconstruction from stellar speckle interferometry data

John G. Walker
Appl. Opt. 21(17) 3132-3137 (1982)

Noise considerations in stellar speckle interferometry*†

M. G. Miller
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(9) 1176-1184 (1977)

Speckle interferometry lens-atmosphere MTF measurements*

Douglas P. Karo and Arthur M. Schneiderman
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(11) 1252-1256 (1976)

Speckle interferometry measurements of atmospheric nonisoplanicity using double stars*

Arthur M. Schneiderman and Douglas P. Karo
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68(3) 338-347 (1978)