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用于红外外差干涉测量的大带宽光子关联函数

Toward a large bandwidth photonic correlator for infrared heterodyne interferometry

Guillaume Bourdarot, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Jean-Philippe Berger

摘要:

有人提出红外外差干涉测量法,作为在中红外线上重新组合公里基线上的大量望远镜的一种实际的替代办法。然而,目前有限的相关能力施加强烈的限制,这种吸引人的技术的灵敏度。在本文中,我们提出了解决的问题的传输和相关的宽带宽信号在千米的距离,通过引入红外外差干涉测量中的光子处理。我们描述了两个望远镜的光子双边带关联函数的架构,以及这个概念的原理验证测试台上的实验演示。我们证明了\textit{a posteriori}相关的两个红外信号先前产生的双望远镜模拟器中的双边带光子关联函数。通过关联函数得到$13\%$的信噪比的退化,相当于噪声因子$\text{NF}=1.15$,并且从这些测量中检索我们的输入信号的时间相干特性。我们的研究结果表明,光子处理可以用来关联外差信号与潜在的大幅度增加的检测带宽。这些发展为中红外外差干涉测量的宽带宽信号的光子处理开辟了道路,特别是对于大量的望远镜和直接成像器复合器。

英文摘要:

Infrared heterodyne interferometry has been proposed as a practical alternative for recombining a large number of telescopes over kilometric baselines in the mid-infrared. However, the current limited correlation capacities impose strong restrictions on the sensitivity of this appealing technique. In this paper, we propose to address the problem of transport and correlation of wide-bandwidth signals over kilometric distances by introducing photonic processing in infrared heterodyne interferometry. We describe the architecture of a photonic double-sideband correlator for two telescopes, along with the experimental demonstration of this concept on a proof-of-principle test bed. We demonstrate the \textit{a posteriori} correlation of two infrared signals previously generated on a two-telescope simulator in a double-sideband photonic correlator. A degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio of $13\%$, equivalent to a noise factor $\text{NF}=1.15$, is obtained through the correlator, and the temporal coherence properties of our input signals are retrieved from these measurements. Our results demonstrate that photonic processing can be used to correlate heterodyne signals with a potentially large increase of detection bandwidth. These developments open the way to photonic processing of wide bandwidth signals for mid-infrared heterodyne interferometry, in particular for a large number of telescopes and for direct imager recombiners.

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