5 December 2019 Laser beam distorted wavefront correction based on deformable mirror eigenmodes
Xizheng Ke, Mei Li
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Abstract

To improve the performance of wireless laser communication (WLC) systems, wavefront sensorless adaptive optics based on deformable mirror (DM) eigenmodes was used to correct the distorted far-field spot. A set of DM eigenmodes conforming to the derivative–orthogonal relationship is derived, and the system simulation model under different atmospheric turbulence intensities is established by combining Fresnel diffraction and multiphase screen transmission principle. The influence of mode bias on the correction effect is analyzed. The ability of the proposed method to correct the distorted far-field spot was studied by using Strehl ratio (SR) as the evaluation index. The influence of the proposed method on the coupling efficiency of single-mode fiber and bit error rate performance of the WLC system is discussed. Indoor and outdoor experimental systems were built. The indoor experiment results show that the proposed method can increase the SR of the system from 0.11, 0.32, and 0.56 to 0.57, 0.71, and 0.88, respectively. The outdoor experiment results show that the proposed method can effectively correct the wavefront distortion caused by dynamic atmospheric turbulence.

© 2019 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2019/$28.00 © 2019 SPIE
Xizheng Ke and Mei Li "Laser beam distorted wavefront correction based on deformable mirror eigenmodes," Optical Engineering 58(12), 126101 (5 December 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.12.126101
Received: 30 July 2019; Accepted: 7 November 2019; Published: 5 December 2019
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KEYWORDS
Turbulence

Wavefronts

Atmospheric turbulence

Deformable mirrors

Lithium

Optimization (mathematics)

Telecommunications

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