A Novel SPGD Algorithm for Wavefront Sensorless Adaptive Optics System

Stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) is the most frequently used optimization algorithm for correcting wavefront distortion in the wavefront sensorless adaptive optics(WFS-Less AO)system. However, the convergence speed of the SPGD algorithm becomes slow rapidly as increasing of distortion, and the probability of falling into local optimum is rising owing to the fixed gain coefficient. It cannot meet the requirement of real-time wavefront distortion correction. Therefore, a novel algorithm is proposed in this paper, called as adaptive gain stochastic parallel gradient descent (AGSPGD) based on the AMSGrad optimizer in the deep learning, to improve the convergence speed of the algorithm and to reduce the probability of falling into local optimum. The AGSPGD algorithm adopts the first-order moment and the second-ordermoment of the performance index, which are combined to dynamically adjust the gain. The numerical simulations are completed in this article. The results of D/r(0) = 2.5 conditions demonstrate that the AGSPGD can reduce the number of iterations by 25%, and the probability of the algorithm falling into local optimum is reduced from 16% to 4%. In addition, the AGSPGD still outperforms the SPGD as D/r(0) increasing.