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标题：Optical sparse aperture imaging with faint objects using improved spatial modulation diversity
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作者：Zongliang Xie ; Haotong Ma ; Bo Qi 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：17513
DOI：10.1038/s41598-017-17844-7
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：The next generation of optical sparse aperture systems will provide high angular resolution for astronomical observations. Spatial modulation diversity (SMD) is a newly developed post-processing technique for such telescopes, faced with challenges of imaging faint objects, which are very attractive for astronomers but always make raw diversity images suffer serious photon noise. In this paper, we propose an improved SMD with denoising reprocessing embedded to address the problem. The blocking-matching and 3D filtering algorithm, a state-of-the-art denoising technique, is first employed to process the diversity images with low photon intensities generated by spatial modulation, specifically switching off each sub-aperture sequentially. SMD algorithm then can be applied to estimate wavefront and digitally restore images. It is demonstrated by both simulations and experiments that the proposed method outperforms the previous SMD in terms of reconstructions of wavefront and imagery from the raw images of faint objects corrupted seriously by photon noise. The reported method may provide an alternative approach to acquire high-quality images of faint objects for astronomical observations of the future segmented mirrors or telescope arrays.