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Solar Adaptive Optics System Based on Software Control

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An adaptive optics (AO) system for solar observations at the Hida Observatory is described, which is composed of commercially available low-cost devices and fully controlled with software in standard personal computers. This AO system operates at a frame rate of more than 250 Hz by virtue of the image processing procedures used. From laboratory experiments, it was confirmed that this AO system was useful for the temporal wavefront-variation of less than 64 Hz. During solar observations at the Hida Observatory the AO system worked well, except for a few cases.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan

    Noriaki Miura, Takashi Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Sakuma & Susumu Kuwamura

  2. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

    Naoshi Baba

  3. National Astronomical Observatory, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan

    Yoichirou Hanaoka

  4. Hida Observatory, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kamitakara, Takayama, Gifu 506-1314, Japan

    Satoru Ueno & Reizaburou Kitai

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Miura, N., Kobayashi, T., Sakuma, S. et al. Solar Adaptive Optics System Based on Software Control. OPT REV 13, 338–345 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-006-0338-5

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