Wavefront sensorless modal deformable mirror correction in adaptive optics: optical coherence tomography

Opt Lett. 2013 Nov 15;38(22):4801-4. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.004801.

Abstract

We present a method for optimization of optical coherence tomography images using wavefront sensorless adaptive optics. The method consists of systematic adjustment of the coefficients of a subset of the orthogonal Zernike bases and application of the resulting shapes to a deformable mirror, while optimizing using image sharpness as a merit function. We demonstrate that this technique can compensate for aberrations induced by trial lenses. Measurements of the point spread function before and after compensation demonstrate near diffraction limit imaging.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Artifacts*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Feedback
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Lenses*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*
  • Transducers