XU An,CHEN Baohua,WU Quanying,et al.Influence of refractive index of reflective film on polarization imaging characteristics of golay3 sparse aperture optical system[J].OPTICAL TECHNIQUE,2026,52(03):308-317.
XU An,CHEN Baohua,WU Quanying,et al.Influence of refractive index of reflective film on polarization imaging characteristics of golay3 sparse aperture optical system[J].OPTICAL TECHNIQUE,2026,52(03):308-317.DOI:
Influence of refractive index of reflective film on polarization imaging characteristics of golay3 sparse aperture optical system
Sparse-aperture optical imaging systems can effectively reduce system volume and weight
offering broad application prospects in astronomical observation and remote sensing. A Golay3 sparse-aperture imaging system is investigated. Polarization ray tracing is performed to calculate the polarization aberrations under different refractive indices of the reflective mirror coating
and the Stokes parameters are obtained for imaging simulation. The results show that as the refractive index of the coating increases
the diattenuation of the Golay3 sparse-aperture system increases significantly
while the phase retardance decreases slightly. The variations in the off-diagonal elements of the amplitude response matrix (ARM) and the modulation transfer matrix (MTM) indicate that the increase in the coating refractive index leads to enhanced polarization crosstalk. Imaging simulation further demonstrates that reducing the coating refractive index can significantly improve the imaging quality of the Golay3 sparse-aperture system. When the refractive index decreases from 1.5 to 0.5
the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR)
sharpness evaluation value
and edge preservation index (EPI) of the Stokes component
S
0
increase by 4.1%
26.0%
and 25.7%
respectively. Adopting a lower refractive index of the reflective coating can effectively suppress the polarization aberrations of the Golay3 sparse-aperture optical syst
em
thereby better preserving image clarity
contrast
and texture details.
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