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Most adaptive optics (AO) systems using pyramid wavefront sensors (PyWFS) to estimate the phase of the pupil field use mechanical modulation of the beam in order to increase the dynamic range in low-order modes so the PyWFS can usefully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Richard Frazin

Computer models are used as replacements for physical experiments in a large variety of applications. Nevertheless, direct use of the computer model for the ultimate scientific objective is often limited by the complexity and cost of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-03 Sonja Surjanovic , William J. Welch

In this paper, we address the inverse problem of fast, stable, and high-quality wavefront reconstruction from pyramid wavefront sensor data for Adaptive Optics systems on Extremely Large Telescopes. For solving the indicated problem we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Victoria Hutterer , Ronny Ramlau , Iuliia Shatokhina

Performing linear operations using optical devices is a crucial building block in many fields ranging from telecommunication to optical analogue computation and machine learning. For many of these applications, key requirements are…

Computational acceleration of performance-metric-based materials discovery via high-throughput screening and machine learning methods is becoming widespread. Nevertheless, development and optimization of the opto-electronic properties that…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-10 Jonathon N. Baker , Preston C. Bowes , Joshua S. Harris , Douglas L. Irving

In scientific computing, the acceleration of atomistic computer simulations by means of custom hardware is finding ever growing application. A major limitation, however, is that the high efficiency in terms of performance and low power…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Varadarajan Rengaraj , Michael Lass , Christian Plessl , Thomas D. Kühne

Modern adaptive optics (AO) systems for large telescopes require tomographic techniques to reconstruct the phase aberrations induced by the turbulent atmosphere along a line of sight to a target which is angularly separated from the guide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 James Osborn , Francisco Javier De Cos Juez , Dani Guzman , Timothy Butterley , Richard Myers , Andres Guesalaga , Jesus Laine

Adaptive Optics (AO) is a new and rapidly expanding field of instrumentation, yet astronomers, vision scientists, and general AO practitioners are largely unfamiliar with the root technologies crucial to AO systems. The AO Summer School…

In this paper, we present power emulation, a novel design paradigm that utilizes hardware acceleration for the purpose of fast power estimation. Power emulation is based on the observation that the functions necessary for power estimation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Joel Coburn , Srivaths Ravi , Anand Raghunathan

Simulation systems have become an essential component in the development and validation of autonomous driving technologies. The prevailing state-of-the-art approach for simulation is to use game engines or high-fidelity computer graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Wei Li , Chengwei Pan , Rong Zhang , Jiaping Ren , Yuexin Ma , Jin Fang , Feilong Yan , Qichuan Geng , Xinyu Huang , Huajun Gong , Weiwei Xu , Guoping Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Ruigang Yang

Recent demonstrations on specialized benchmarks have reignited excitement for quantum computers, yet whether they can deliver an advantage for practical real-world problems remains an open question. Here, we show that probabilistic…

The use of Adaptive Optics in Extremely Large Telescopes brings new challenges, one of which is the treatment of Shack-Hartmann Wavefront sensors images. When using this type of sensors in conjunction with laser guide stars for sampling the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-10 A. T. Mello , A. Kanaan , D. Guzman , A. Guesalaga

Particle accelerators are enabling tools for scientific exploration and discovery in various disciplines. Finding optimized operation points for these complex machines is a challenging task, however, due to the large number of parameters…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Renato Bellotti , Romana Boiger , Andreas Adelmann

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is one of the most important optimization problems for the operation of the power grid. It calculates the optimum scheduling of the committed generation units. In this paper, we develop a neural network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Wenqian Dong , Zhen Xie , Gokcen Kestor , Dong Li

Asynchronous algorithms have attracted much attention recently due to the crucial demands on solving large-scale optimization problems. However, the accelerated versions of asynchronous algorithms are rarely studied. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Cong Fang , Yameng Huang , Zhouchen Lin

We consider the mathematical background of the wavefront sensor type that is widely used in Adaptive Optics systems for astronomy, microscopy, and ophthalmology. The theoretical analysis of the pyramid sensor forward operators presented in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Victoria Hutterer , Ronny Ramlau , Iuliia Shatokhina

Ground-based high contrast exoplanet imaging requires state-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) systems in order to detect extremely faint planets next to their brighter host stars. For such extreme AO systems (with high actuator count…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 J. Fowler , Maaike A. M. Van Kooten , Rebecca Jensen-Clem

We have taken advantage of the implementation of an adaptive optics system on the Themis solar telescope to implement innovative strategies based on an inverse problem formulation for the control loop. Such an approach encompassing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Éric Thiébaut , Michel Tallon , Isabelle Tallon-Bosc , Bernard Gelly , Richard Douet , Maud Langlois , Gil Moretto

The rapidly increasing demands for computational throughput, bandwidth, and memory capacity fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning pose substantial challenges for conventional electronic computing platforms. For digital scaling to keep…

The usage of eye tracking sensors is expected to grow in virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms. Provided that users of these platforms consent to employing captured eye movement signals for authentication and health assessment,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Alex Karpov , Jacob Liberman , Dillon Lohr , Oleg Komogortsev