Testing FPGAs for real-time control of adaptive optics in giant telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rodríguez Ramos, Luis F ^a   Viera, Teodora ^a   Herrera, Guillermo ^a   Gigante, José V ^a   Gago, Fernando ^a   Alonso, Ángel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; FPGA; Gigabit ethernet; Real time control; Shack hartmann; Wavefront sensor; Zonal control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMERA; REAL TIME CONTROL; WAVEFRONT SENSORS; ZONAL CONTROL;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 33749411320     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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