Beam combination: all with all

E. N. Ribak; M. Gai; S. G. Lipson; P. Parahovnik

doi:10.1117/12.677412

28 June 2006 Beam combination: all with all

E. N. Ribak, M. Gai, S. G. Lipson, P. Parahovnik

Proceedings Volume 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry; 62681L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.677412
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

One of the concepts of radio interferometry which is very difficult to apply to the visible domain is phase closure. The main difficulty is the spatial requirement, namely that all pencil beams will interfere with all other beams on a flat detector. We use a pair-wise combination method using anamorphic stretching of the beams. All beams are lined up, imaged through a cylindrical lens into a square where each beam is now spread into a parallel line. The comb of lines is made to interfere with a copy of itself rotated at 90°. A rotation shear interferometer is employed for that stage, and the cross pattern of apertures is imaged on the detector. The diagonal shows interference of each beam with itself, for intensity calibration purposes. An extended source clearly reduces contrast on some off-axis patterns, in a symmetric manner. We have already tested two designs in the laboratory using lasers and white light.

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E. N. Ribak, M. Gai, S. G. Lipson, and P. Parahovnik "Beam combination: all with all", Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, 62681L (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.677412

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