Quadri-Wave Lateral Shearing Interferogram Outpainting Using QW-GAN for Accurate Wavefront Reconstruction.

Yao Fan, Yaxuan Duan, Yiwen Zhang, Zhengshang Da, Yang Yue

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Yao FanAdvanced Optical Instrument Laboratory, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China.

Yaxuan DuanAdvanced Optical Instrument Laboratory, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China.

Yiwen ZhangDrilling & Production Technology Research Institute, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited, Guanghan 618300, China.

Zhengshang DaAdvanced Optical Instrument Laboratory, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China.

Yang YueSchool of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel outpainting technique for quadri-wave lateral shearing interferograms which employs Quadri-Wave Generative Adversarial Networks (QW-GANs). QW-GAN is adversarially trained to capture the high-order statistics of real interferograms. It thereby avoids the Gibbs-ringing artifacts and spectral leakage caused by deterministic interpolation or single-frame extrapolation. The recovered fringes remain physically consistent with preserved Fourier support, enabling more accurate wavefront phase retrieval. Numerical simulations and comparisons with aberrations (defocus, astigmatism, coma, spherical, and random), along with real experimental results, demonstrate the enhanced reconstruction precision of our method, providing an efficient solution for wavefront reconstruction in optical applications.

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gibbs phenomenon mitigationinterferogram outpaintingquadri-wave generative adversarial networks (QW-GAN)wavefront reconstruction

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PMID42817340

DOI10.3390/s26185771

PMCPMC13611182

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