Imaging quality evaluation method of pixel coupled electro-optical imaging system

Results show that the coupled-MTF oscillation converges to a fixed value when the deviation between a spatial frequency of input signal and Nyquist frequency is 1% and when the total number of pixels in the coupled system is more than 1000. The minimal frequency deviation corresponds to the slow velocity of the oscillational convergent. The oscillation amplitude of coupled-MTF differs in tangential and sagittal directions in a manner related to the corresponding pixel coupling error. The coupled-MTF periodically oscillates with the alignment error between the coupled pixel. One cycle is equivalent to the diameter of fiber cladding. The observation from the simulations further reveal that the distance between adjacent fiber cores and the dimension of core layer are directly related to the system imaging quality and the signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, the average coupled-MTF can be used to quantitatively describe the function of related parameters and the imaging quality of the system.