TY - GEN
T1 - A portable solar adaptive optics system
T2 - Adaptive Optics Systems II
AU - Ren, Deqing
AU - Penn, Matt
AU - Plymate, Claude
AU - Wang, Haimin
AU - Zhang, Xi
AU - Dong, Bing
AU - Brown, Nathan
AU - Denio, Andrew
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We present our recent process on a portable solar adaptive Optics system, which is aimed for diffraction-limited imaging in the 1.0 ∼ 5.0-μm infrared wavelength range with any solar telescope with an aperture size up to 1.6 meters. The realtime wave-front sensing, image processing and computation are based on a commercial multi-core personal computer. The software is developed in LabVIEW. Combining the power of multi-core imaging processing and LabVIEW parallel programming, we show that our solar adaptive optics can achieve excellent performance that is competitive with other systems. In addition, the LabVIEW'S block diagram based programming is especially suitable for rapid development of a prototype system, which makes a low-cost and high-performance system possible. Our adaptive optics system is flexible; it can work with any telescope with or without central obstruction with any aperture size in the range of 0.6∼1.6 meters. In addition, the whole system is compact and can be brought to a solar observatory to perform associated scientific observations. According to our knowledge, this is the first adaptive optics that adopts the LabVIEW high-level programming language with a multi-core commercial personal computer, and includes the unique features discussed above.
AB - We present our recent process on a portable solar adaptive Optics system, which is aimed for diffraction-limited imaging in the 1.0 ∼ 5.0-μm infrared wavelength range with any solar telescope with an aperture size up to 1.6 meters. The realtime wave-front sensing, image processing and computation are based on a commercial multi-core personal computer. The software is developed in LabVIEW. Combining the power of multi-core imaging processing and LabVIEW parallel programming, we show that our solar adaptive optics can achieve excellent performance that is competitive with other systems. In addition, the LabVIEW'S block diagram based programming is especially suitable for rapid development of a prototype system, which makes a low-cost and high-performance system possible. Our adaptive optics system is flexible; it can work with any telescope with or without central obstruction with any aperture size in the range of 0.6∼1.6 meters. In addition, the whole system is compact and can be brought to a solar observatory to perform associated scientific observations. According to our knowledge, this is the first adaptive optics that adopts the LabVIEW high-level programming language with a multi-core commercial personal computer, and includes the unique features discussed above.
KW - Adaptive optics
KW - High resolution imaging
KW - Solar instrumentation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77957853512
U2 - 10.1117/12.856224
DO - 10.1117/12.856224
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957853512
SN - 9780819482266
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Adaptive Optics Systems II
Y2 - 27 June 2010 through 2 July 2010
ER -