A portable solar adaptive optics system: Software and laboratory developments

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-18-2010

Abstract

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. © 2010 SPIE.

Identifier

77957853512 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9780819482266]

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856224

ISSN

0277786X

Issue

PART 1

Volume

7736

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