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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2010
Applicants:

Alain Bergeron, Québec, CA;

Linda Marchese, Québec, CA;

Michel Doucet, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;

Inventors:

Alain Bergeron, Québec, CA;

Linda Marchese, Québec, CA;

Michel Doucet, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;

Assignee:

INSTITUT NATIONAL D'OPTIQUE, Quebec, Quebec, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/90 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/58 (2006.01); G03H 1/02 (2006.01); G02B 26/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/9005 (2013.01); G01S 15/8904 (2013.01); G01S 15/8997 (2013.01); G01S 17/895 (2013.01); G02B 27/0087 (2013.01); G02B 27/58 (2013.01); G02B 26/06 (2013.01); G02F 2203/12 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0224 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a System and method of wavefront compensation in a synthetic aperture imaging system. A return signal data representative of a signal reflected by a target area to be imaged is received. A compensation phase figure corresponding to a wavefront compensation to be applied is provided. The compensation phase figure is added or otherwise applied to the phase pattern of the return signal data in order to obtain a compensated phase pattern. An optical beam is spatially modulated according to the compensated phase pattern to produce a modulated optical beam such that the compensation phase figure produces a wavefront compensation on the optical beam. An image of the target area is optically generated using the modulated optical beam.


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