Hardware accelerated optical alignment of lasers using beam-specific matched filters

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 5190-5196

  Awwal, Abdul A S ^a   Rice, Kenneth L ^b   Taha, Tarek M ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

^c University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BANDPASS FILTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; LASER BEAMS; MATCHED FILTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED ALIGNMENTS; EXTREME TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HIGH-ENERGY LASER SYSTEMS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 70349488049     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005190     Document Type: Article

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