An efficient pipeline wavefront phase recovery for the CAFADIS camera for extremely large telescopes

In this paper we show a fast, specialized hardware implementation of the wavefront phase recovery algorithm using the CAFADIS camera. The CAFADIS camera is a new plenoptic sensor patented by the Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain): international patent PCT/ES2007/000046 (WIPO publication number WO/2007/082975). It can simultaneously measure the wavefront phase and the distance to the light source in a real-time process. The pipeline algorithm is implemented using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). These devices present architecture capable of handling the sensor output stream using a massively parallel approach and they are efficient enough to resolve several Adaptive Optics (AO) problems in Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) in terms of processing time requirements. The FPGA implementation of the wavefront phase recovery algorithm using the CAFADIS camera is based on the very fast computation of two dimensional fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs). Thus we have carried out a comparison between our very novel FPGA 2D-FFTa and other implementations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 10(2010), 1 vom: 21., Seite 1-15

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Magdaleno, Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Ramos, José Manuel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adaptive optics
FPGA
Journal Article
Plenoptic sensors
Real-time processing
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Wavefront sensors

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Date Completed 11.07.2012

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s100100001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM215237595