Real-time spot detection and ordering for a shack-hartmann wavefront sensor with a low-cost FPGA

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2379-2386

  Mauch, Steffen ^a   Reger, Johann ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics (AO); blob detection; connected component labeling (CCL); dynamic range extension; FPGA; Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS); wavefront sensing.

Indexed keywords

BLOB DETECTION; CONNECTED-COMPONENT LABELING (CCL); DYNAMIC RANGE EXTENSION; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 84907450694     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2310616     Document Type: Article

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