Zernike.jl

Generates Zernike polynomials, models wavefront errors, and plots them using Makie.

This package can be added from the Julia REPL by:

using Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/Sagnac/Zernike.jl")

or entering the package mode by pressing ] and entering:

add https://github.com/Sagnac/Zernike.jl

It can then be loaded by typing using Zernike.

The package provides 3 main functions for modelling Zernike polynomials and wavefront errors:

• zernike(m, n): Generates a Zernike polynomial, prints its symbolic representation, and plots it using GLMakie;

• wavefront(ρ, θ, OPD, n_max): Fits wavefront errors up to radial order n_max given an input set of data over the pupil, returns the Zernike expansion coefficients & various metrics, and plots the modelled wavefront error using GLMakie;

• transform(v, ε, δ, ϕ, ω): Aperture transform function which takes a vector of Zernike expansion coefficients and a set of transformation factors and returns a new set of expansion coefficients over the transformed pupil; the wavefront error over the new pupil is also plotted using GLMakie.

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zernike(m, n) | zernike(j)

Generates a Zernike polynomial.

• m: azimuthal order;
• n: radial degree;
• j: ANSI Z80.28-2004 / ISO 24157:2008 / Optica (OSA) standard single-mode ordering index.

Returns a Zernike.Output type which contains (among other things):

• Z: the Polynomial function Z(ρ, θ);
• fig: the Makie figure;
• coeffs: vector of radial polynomial coefficients;
• latex: LaTeX string of the Zernike polynomial.

The coefficients belong to terms with exponent n − 2(i − 1) where i is the vector's index.

The radial polynomial coefficients are computed using a fast and accurate algorithm suitable for high orders; it is based on a recursive relation presented by Honarvar & Paramesran (2013).

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wavefront(ρ, θ, OPD, n_max)

Estimates wavefront error by expressing optical aberrations as a linear combination of weighted Zernike polynomials using a linear least squares method. The accuracy of this type of wavefront reconstruction represented as an expanded series depends upon a sufficiently sampled phase field and a suitable choice of the fitting order n_max.

ρ, θ, and OPD must be floating-point vectors of equal length; at each specific index the values are elements of an ordered triple over the exit pupil.

• ρ: normalized radial exit pupil position variable {0 ≤ ρ ≤ 1};
• θ: angular exit pupil variable in radians (mod 2π), defined positive counter-clockwise from the horizontal x-axis;
• OPD: measured optical path difference in waves;
• n_max: maximum radial degree to fit to.

Note that specifying n_max will fit using the full range of Zernike polynomials from j = 0 to j_max corresponding to the last polynomial with degree n_max. If instead you only want to fit to a subset of Zernike polynomials you can specify a vector of (m, n) tuples in place of n_max using the method:

wavefront(ρ, θ, OPD, orders::Vector{Tuple{Int, Int}})

If your phase data is in the form of a floating-point matrix instead you can call the method:

wavefront(OPD, fit_to; options...)

This assumes the wavefront error was uniformly measured using polar coordinates; the matrix is expected to be a polar grid of regularly spaced periodic samples with the first element referring to the value at the origin. The first axis of the matrix (the rows) must correspond to the angular variable θ while the second axis (the columns) must correspond to the radial variable ρ.

If instead your data is not equally spaced you can call:

wavefront(ρ::Vector, θ::Vector, OPD::Matrix, fit_to; options...)

under the aforementioned dimensional ordering assumption.

fit_to can be either n_max::Int or orders::Vector{Tuple{Int, Int}}.

It is also possible to input normalized Cartesian coordinates using the method with 3 positional arguments and passing fit_to as a keyword argument:
wavefront(x, y, OPD; fit_to, options...).

The function returns seven values contained within a WavefrontOutput type, with fields:

1. recap: vector of named tuples containing the Zernike polynomial indices and the corresponding expansion coefficients rounded according to precision;
2. v: full vector of Zernike wavefront error expansion coefficients;
3. metrics: named 3-tuple with the peak-to-valley error, RMS wavefront error, and Strehl ratio;
4. W: the WavefrontError function ΔW(ρ, θ);
5. fig: the plotted Makie figure;
6. axis: the plot axis;
7. plot: the surface plot object.

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transform(v, ε, δ, ϕ, ω)

Pupil transform function; computes a new set of Zernike wavefront error expansion coefficients under a given set of transformation factors and plots the result.

Available transformations are scaling, translation, & rotation for circular and elliptical exit pupils. These are essentially coordinate transformations in the pupil plane over the wavefront map.

• v::Vector{Float64}: vector of full Zernike expansion coefficients ordered in accordance with the ANSI / OSA single index standard. This is the v vector returned by wavefront(ρ, θ, OPD, n_max);
• ε::Float64: scaling factor {0 ≤ ε ≤ 1};
• δ::ComplexF64: translational complex coordinates (displacement of the pupil center in the complex plane);
• ϕ::Float64: rotation of the pupil in radians (mod 2π), defined positive counter-clockwise from the horizontal x-axis;
• ω::NTuple{2, Float64}: elliptical pupil transform parameters; 2-tuple where ω[1] is the ratio of the minor radius to the major radius of the ellipse and ω[2] is the angle defined positive counter-clockwise from the horizontal coordinate axis of the exit pupil to the minor axis of the ellipse.

The order the transformations are applied is:
scaling --> translation --> rotation --> elliptical transform.

The translation, rotation, and elliptical arguments are optional.

ε = r₂/r₁ where r₂ is the new smaller radius, r₁ the original

In particular the radial variable corresponding to the rescaled exit pupil is normalized such that:
ρ = r/r₂; {0 ≤ ρ ≤ 1}
r: radial pupil position, r₂: max. radius
ΔW₂(ρ₂, θ) = ΔW₁(ερ₂, θ)

For translation the shift must be within the bounds of the scaling applied such that:
0.0 ≤ ε + |δ| ≤ 1.0.

For elliptical pupils (usually the result of measuring the wavefront off-axis), the major radius is defined such that it equals the radius of the circle and so ω[1] is the fraction of the circular pupil covered by the minor radius (this is approximated well by a cosine projection factor for angles up to 40 degrees); ω[2] is then the direction of the stretching applied under transformation in converting the ellipse to a circle before fitting the expansion coefficients.

The transformed expansion coefficients are computed using a fast and accurate algorithm suitable for high orders; it is based on a formulation presented by Lundström & Unsbo (2007).

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Options

There are 2 options you can vary using keyword arguments. All 3 main functions support:

• finesse::Int: {1 ≤ finesse ≤ 100}: multiplicative factor determining the size of the plotted matrix; the total number of elements is capped at 2^20 (~ 1 million) which should avoid aliasing up to ~317 radially and ~499 azimuthally.

Default: 100 (for zernike, proportionally scaled according to the number of polynomials for the wavefront errors).

In creating the plot matrix the step size / length of the variable ranges is automatically chosen such that aliasing is avoided for reasonable orders. The finesse parameter controls how fine the granularity is subsequently at the expense of performance.

Additionally, the wavefront error functions wavefront(ρ, θ, OPD, n_max) and transform(v, ε, δ, ϕ, ω) support:

• precision: number of digits to use after the decimal point in computing the expansion coefficients. Results will be rounded according to this precision and any polynomials with zero-valued coefficients will be ignored when pulling in the Zernike functions while constructing the composite wavefront error; this means lower precision values yield faster results.

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Plot options can be set by setting the plotconfig fields; see the docstring for more details.

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Z, W, P functions

Analogs:

Z: zernike
W: wavefront
P: transform

These methods avoid plotting and instead return (ρ, θ) functions as essentially closures, but packaged within Polynomial and WavefrontError types. The pupil can then be evaluated using these functions with polar coordinates:

Z40 = Z(0, 4)
Z40(0.7, π/4)

For wavefront reconstruction this is equivalent to ΔW(ρ, θ) = ∑aᵢZᵢ(ρ, θ) where aᵢ and Zᵢ were determined from the fitting process according to precision.

Arithmetric between these types is defined; in addition, the Superposition(W) and Product(W) constructors (where W is a Vector{WavefrontError}) serve as direct methods for creating composite functions which group evaluate a specified expansion set when an updated set of coefficients is not required.

Single-Index Ordering Schemes

This package uses the ANSI Z80.28-2004 standard sequential ordering scheme where applicable, but provides several functions for converting from two other ordering methods, namely Noll and Fringe. The following methods are available:

• noll_to_j(noll::Int): converts Noll indices to ANSI standard indices;
• standardize!(noll::Vector): re-orders a Noll specified Zernike expansion coefficient vector according to the ANSI standard; this requires a full ordered vector up to n_max;
• fringe_to_j(fringe::Int): converts Fringe indices to ANSI standard indices; only indices 1:37 are valid;
• standardize(fringe::Vector): formats a Fringe specified Zernike expansion coefficient vector according to the ANSI standard;
• standardize(v_sub::Vector, orders::Vector{Tuple{Int, Int}}): pads a subset Zernike expansion coefficient vector to the full standard length up to n_max (1:j_max+1).

The standardize fringe method expects unnormalized coefficients; the input coefficients will be re-ordered and normalized in line with the orthonormal standard. As Fringe is a 37 polynomial subset of the full set of Zernike polynomials any coefficients in the standard order missing a counterpart in the input vector will be set to zero.

For the standardize subset method the tuples in orders must be of the form (m, n) associated with the respective coefficients at each index in v_sub.

Additional Notes

• Zernike.metrics(ΔW::WavefrontError) exists;

• The zplot function can be invoked independently using Polynomial and WavefrontError function types as well as quantized wavefront errors;

• If you resize the plot window, right clicking on the figure will resize / trim the plot automatically so that it fits within the window without extra space;

• The values contained within the WavefrontOutput type can also be accessed through numerical indexing and regular destructuring in addition to property destructuring and getting the fields directly;

• The Zernike polynomials are currently only valid up to degree ~812 at which point the maximum coefficient approaches the maximum for double-precision floating-point numbers (~1e308);

• If you're interested in precompiling the package into a system image in order to speed up load times please see the precompile directory (at the moment PrecompileTools or the like is not used);

• If you're interested in only the full vector of Zernike expansion coefficients obtained through the least squares fit and want to avoid computing extra values and plotting the results you can call:

Zernike.reconstruct(ρ, θ, OPD, n_max)[1]

Similarly you can do this for the radial polynomial coefficients and the NA transformed wavefront error expansion coefficients by importing the functions coefficients and transform_coefficients, respectively.