DOI: 10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-07-61-68

Iterative optimization of the interferometric array configuration

Huang, Siyu, Guo, Youming, Rao, Changhui

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Siyu Huang, Youming Guo, Changhui Rao Iterative optimization of the interferometric array configuration (Итеративная оптимизация конфигурации интерферометрической решетки) [на англ. яз.] // Оптический журнал. 2018. Т. 85. № 7. С. 61–68. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-07-61-68

Siyu Huang, Youming Guo, Changhui Rao Iterative optimization of the interferometric array configuration (Итеративная оптимизация конфигурации интерферометрической решетки) [in English] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2018. V. 85. № 7. P. 61–68. http://doi.org/10.17586/1023-5086-2018-85-07-61-68

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

Siyu Huang, Youming Guo, and Changhui Rao, "Iterative optimization of the interferometric array configuration," Journal of Optical Technology. 85(7), 425-431 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.85.000425

Abstract:

Interferometric array configuration can affect the quality of restored image. In this paper, an iterative array configuration optimization method is proposed. This method uses simple prior information of the observed target, an image reconstruction algorithm and a Monte-Carlo search method to find an optimal array configuration. The advantage of this method is that it can directly use image quality as the evaluation criterion to optimize array configuration. The optimized Y-shaped arrays with a given aperture number and the restored images are shown in the simulation and the experiment. Results show that the optimized arrays obtained images close to the ideal optimized results.

Keywords:

interferometric array configuration, iterative optimization, image reconstruction, interferometric imaging

Acknowledgements:

This work has been supported by the Hi-tech project of China.

OCIS codes: 040.1240, 110.3010, 110.3175

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