A portable solar adaptive optics system: software and laboratory developments

Deqing Ren; Matt Penn; Claude Plymate; Haimin Wang; Xi Zhang; Bing Dong; Nathan Brown; Andrew Denio

doi:10.1117/12.856224

28 July 2010 A portable solar adaptive optics system: software and laboratory developments

Deqing Ren, Matt Penn, Claude Plymate, Haimin Wang, Xi Zhang, Bing Dong, Nathan Brown, Andrew Denio

Proceedings Volume 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II; 77363P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856224
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

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.

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Deqing Ren, Matt Penn, Claude Plymate, Haimin Wang, Xi Zhang, Bing Dong, Nathan Brown, and Andrew Denio "A portable solar adaptive optics system: software and laboratory developments", Proc. SPIE 7736, Adaptive Optics Systems II, 77363P (28 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856224

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