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Simulating large atmospheric phase screens using a woofer-tweeter algorithm

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Authors

Buscher, DF 

Abstract

We describe an algorithm for simulating atmospheric wavefront perturbations over ranges of spatial and temporal scales spanning more than 4 orders of magnitude. An open-source implementation of the algorithm written in Python can simulate the evolution of the perturbations more than an order-of-magnitude faster than real time. Testing of the implementation using metrics appropriate to adaptive optics systems and long-baseline interferometers show accuracies at the few percent level or better.

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0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Journal Title

Optics Express

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Journal ISSN

1094-4087
1094-4087

Volume Title

24

Publisher

Optical Society of America