• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 4, 041101 (2017)
Zongliang Xie1、2、3, Haotong Ma1、2、4、*, Bo Qi1、2, Ge Ren1、2, Jianliang Shi1、2、3, Xiaojun He1、2、3, Yufeng Tan1、2、3, Li Dong1、2、3, and Zhipeng Wang1、2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10039, China
  • 4The College of Opto-electric Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.041101 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zongliang Xie, Haotong Ma, Bo Qi, Ge Ren, Jianliang Shi, Xiaojun He, Yufeng Tan, Li Dong, Zhipeng Wang. Experimental demonstration of enhanced resolution of a Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(4): 041101 Copy Citation Text show less
    Front view of the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope.
    Fig. 1. Front view of the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope.
    Optical configuration of the Golay3 sparse-aperture system. Left: top view of the configuration of the horizontal two subsystems; right: side view of the configuration of the upper single subsystem.
    Fig. 2. Optical configuration of the Golay3 sparse-aperture system. Left: top view of the configuration of the horizontal two subsystems; right: side view of the configuration of the upper single subsystem.
    Three-dimensional schematic of the optical layout of the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope.
    Fig. 3. Three-dimensional schematic of the optical layout of the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope.
    Theoretic MTF of the Golay3 telescope. The spatial cutoff frequency ρmin, shown by the white circle, is determined by the largest circle inscribed within the contiguous portion of the MTF.
    Fig. 4. Theoretic MTF of the Golay3 telescope. The spatial cutoff frequency ρmin, shown by the white circle, is determined by the largest circle inscribed within the contiguous portion of the MTF.
    Cophased point spread function of the Golay3 telescope.
    Fig. 5. Cophased point spread function of the Golay3 telescope.
    Experimental results of enhance resolution: (a) the image from one single aperture telescope; (b) the directly observed image from the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope; (c) the processed image.
    Fig. 6. Experimental results of enhance resolution: (a) the image from one single aperture telescope; (b) the directly observed image from the Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope; (c) the processed image.
    Zongliang Xie, Haotong Ma, Bo Qi, Ge Ren, Jianliang Shi, Xiaojun He, Yufeng Tan, Li Dong, Zhipeng Wang. Experimental demonstration of enhanced resolution of a Golay3 sparse-aperture telescope[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(4): 041101
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