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    • Optical Engineering
    • Astronomy

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    • Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors (SHWFS) are crucial for adaptive optics, especially in solar astronomy.
    • Increasing telescope diameter necessitates a larger dynamic range in SHWFS, posing challenges with high frame rate requirements.
    • Conventional methods struggle to balance dynamic range and frame rate for large-aperture solar observations.

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    • To introduce a novel region-correlation algorithm (RCA) to overcome the dynamic range limitations of SHWFS in solar adaptive optics.
    • To enhance the accuracy of wavefront reconstruction under significant aberrations.
    • To provide a computationally efficient and practical solution without additional hardware.

    Main Methods:

    • The region-correlation algorithm (RCA) divides the sub-image array into regions.
    • Slopes are calculated within each region relative to a selected sub-image.
    • Final slopes are combined from regional relative slopes, accumulating dynamic range.

    Main Results:

    • The RCA significantly extends the dynamic range by accumulating regional dynamic ranges.
    • Wavefront reconstruction accuracy is improved, particularly for large aberrations.
    • Numerical simulations and experiments validate the RCA's superior performance compared to conventional methods.
    • The RCA maintains an acceptable increase in computation time.

    Conclusions:

    • The region-correlation algorithm (RCA) offers a practical and effective solution for extending the dynamic range of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors.
    • It enhances performance for solar adaptive optics applications with large telescopes and high aberrations.
    • The RCA presents a valuable advancement in wavefront sensing technology.