Abstract
The performance of a photon-address, subplane implementation of the triple-correlation (TC) algorithm is evaluated for application to near-real-time, stellar speckle imaging at low-light levels. A simple least-squares relaxation algorithm for recovering object phase from the bispectrum is proposed and found to be consistently better than the usual recursive method. Photon-address speckle data from six simulated objects of different degrees of complexity, and from the binary stars β Del and μ Ori, were used in this study. For real-time applications for which computational efficiency is critical, the relaxed two-plane TC algorithm offers excellent performance and rugged-ness with respect to object complexity.
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