Compressive Wavefront Sensing with Weak Values

Authors

Gregory A. Howland, University of Rochester
Daniel J. Lum, University of Rochester
John C. Howell, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-28-2014

Abstract

We demonstrate a wavefront sensor that unites weak measurement and the compressive-sensing, single-pixel camera. Using a high-resolution spatial light modulator (SLM) as a variable waveplate, we weakly couple an optical field’s transverse-position and polarization degrees of freedom. By placing random, binary patterns on the SLM, polarization serves as a meter for directly measuring random projections of the wavefront’s real and imaginary components. Compressive-sensing optimization techniques can then recover the wavefront. We acquire high quality, 256 × 256 pixel images of the wavefront from only 10,000 projections. Photon-counting detectors give sub-picowatt sensitivity.

Comments

This article was originally published in Optics Express, volume 22, issue 16, in 2014. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.018870

Recommended Citation

G. A. Howland, D. J. Lum, and J. C. Howell,Compressive Wavefront Sensing with Weak Values, Optics Express 22(16), 18870-18880. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.018870

Peer Reviewed

1

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