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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Optical Sensing Technologies
    • Structured Light Applications

    Background:

    • Wavefront sensors measure optical beam properties.
    • Structured light offers new possibilities for optical sensing.
    • Traditional Shack-Hartmann sensors have limitations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To present an alternative wavefront sensing approach using optical vortices.
    • To improve the performance of Shack-Hartmann sensors.
    • To demonstrate the utility of structured beam shaping.

    Main Methods:

    • Incorporated optical vortices (phase singularities) into Shack-Hartmann subapertures.
    • Developed a dedicated tracking algorithm for singularities.
    • Compared performance against conventional Shack-Hartmann sensors across various SNR levels.

    Main Results:

    • The optical vortex-based method demonstrated lower RMS wavefront error.
    • Performance improvements were observed across a wide signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range.
    • The new approach matched conventional methods in computational complexity.

    Conclusions:

    • Structured beam shaping can enhance traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor capabilities.
    • Optical vortices provide a novel method for wavefront sensing.
    • This technique offers improved accuracy without fundamental redesign of the S-H architecture.