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Generalization of Zernike polynomials for regular portions of circles and ellipses
- Source :
- Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, instname, Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada, Academica-e: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, Universidad Pública de Navarra
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper was published in Optic Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.021263<br />Zernike polynomials are commonly used to represent the wavefront phase on circular optical apertures, since they form a complete and orthonormal basis on the unit circle. Here, we present a generalization of this Zernike basis for a variety of important optical apertures. On the contrary to ad hoc solutions, most of them based on the Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization method, here we apply the diffeomorphism (mapping that has a differentiable inverse mapping) that transforms the unit circle into an angular sector of an elliptical annulus. In this way, other apertures, such as ellipses, rings, angular sectors, etc. are also included as particular cases. This generalization, based on in-plane warping of the basis functions, provides a unique solution and what is more important, it guarantees a reasonable level of invariance of the mathematical properties and the physical meaning of the initial basis functions. Both, the general form and the explicit expressions for most common, elliptical and annular apertures are provided.<br />This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economía y Competitividad and the European Union, grant FIS2011-22496, and by the Government of Aragón, research group E99.
- Subjects :
- Diffraction optics
Basis (linear algebra)
Generalization
Zernike polynomials
Wave-front sensing
Mathematical analysis
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
FOS: Physical sciences
Annulus (mathematics)
Basis function
Aberration expansions
Ellipse
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
symbols.namesake
Circular optical apertures
Unit circle
symbols
Orthonormal basis
Mathematical methods in physics
Optics (physics.optics)
Mathematics
Physics - Optics
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, instname, Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada, Academica-e: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, Universidad Pública de Navarra
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b9e50208a791cdb41357f75a6475a7b1