Aiming at the problem of time delay between wavefront sensor and wavefront correction in adaptive optics
a wavefront real-time correction method based on wavefront prediction model for adaptive optics is proposed. The wavefront prediction model consists of two parallel branches
in the first branch
the difference wavefront sequence is computed based on wavefront time sequence to generate the temporal dynamic evolutionary information of the atmospheric turbulence
and it is delivered to long short term memory network to extract the dynamic features of atmospheric turbulence evolution. In the second branch
the wavefront time sequence is delivered to the enhanced Transformer encoder to extract the temporal dependency of the time sequence
and a multi-scale convolutional neural layer is introduced to extract the spatial features of each wavefront Zernike coefficient
to generate features including temporal and spatial information of the aberration wavefronts. Finally
the dynamic features most relevant to current wavefront prediction are selected from the features come from the first branch by using of cross-attention mechanism
and the future wavefront are predicted based on the information with combination of dynamic features and Transformer encoded features. Simulation results show that under the conditions of strong
moderate and weak turbulent atmospheric
the root mean square error of the proposed wavefront prediction model decreases by 43.8%
43.9% and 57.9% respectively compared to the second-best method.
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