Title
An efficient pipeline wavefront phase recovery for the CAFADIS camera for extremely large telescopes.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3390/s100100001
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
plenoptic sensors,wavefront sensors,adaptive optics,real-time processing,FPGA
Transducer,Wavefront,Massively parallel,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Lens (optics),Artificial intelligence,Computer hardware,Adaptive optics,Computation,Computer vision,Field-programmable gate array,Fast Fourier transform
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.46
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduardo Magdaleno1233.56
Manuel Rodríguez2308.69
José Manuel Rodríguez-Ramos3152.40