Real-time liquid-crystal atmosphere turbulence simulator with graphic processing unit

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7259-7268

  Hu, Lifa ^a   Xuan, Li ^a   Li, Dayu ^a   Cao, Zhaoliang ^a   Mu, Quanquan ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Peng, Zenghui ^a   Lu, Xinhai ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; FOURIER SERIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PROCESSING; SIMULATORS; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERE TURBULENCE; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT(GPU); GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ON SILICON; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PHASE GENERATING; PHASE GENERATION; REAL MATRICES;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 66549106114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007259     Document Type: Article

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