Integration of a photodiode array and centroid processing on a single CMOS chip for a real-time shack-hartmann wavefront sensor

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 787-794

  Pui, Boon Hean ^a   Hayes Gill, Barrie ^a   Clark, Matthew ^a   Somekh, Mike G ^a   See, Chung Wah ^a   Morgan, Steve ^a   Ng, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active pixel; Centroid detection; CMOS IC; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Integrated detector; Photodiodes; Wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; TURBULENCE; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEFRONTS;

ACTIVE PIXELS; CENTROID DETECTION; INTEGRATED DETECTORS; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 10044225578     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2004.837494     Document Type: Article

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