CAOS: a numerical simulation tool for astronomical adaptive optics (and beyond)

Marcel Carbillet; Christophe Verinaud; Mario Guarracino; Luca Fini; Olivier Lardiere; Brice Le Roux; Alfio T. Puglisi; Bruno Femenia; Armando Riccardi; Barbara Anconelli; Serge Correia; Mario Bertero; Patrizia Boccacci

doi:10.1117/12.551552

25 October 2004 CAOS: a numerical simulation tool for astronomical adaptive optics (and beyond)

Marcel Carbillet, Christophe Verinaud, Mario Guarracino, Luca Fini, Olivier Lardiere, Brice Le Roux, Alfio T. Puglisi, Bruno Femenia, Armando Riccardi, Barbara Anconelli, Serge Correia, Mario Bertero, Patrizia Boccacci

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Proceedings Volume 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551552
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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We present recent developments of the CAOS "system", an IDL-based Problem Solving Environment (PSE) whose original aim was to define and simulate as realistically as possible the behavior of a generic adaptive optics (AO) system, from the atmospheric propagation of light, to the sensing of the wave-front aberratoins and the correction through a deformable mirror. The different developments made through the last 7 years result in a very versatile numerical tool complete of a global graphical interface (the CAOS Application Builder), and different specialized scientific packages: the original one designed for AO system simulations (the Software Package CAOS), an image reconstruction package with interferometric capabilities (the Software Package AIRY), and a more recent one being built and dedicated to multiconjugate AO (the Software Package MAOS). We present the status of the whole CAOS "system"/PSE, together with the most recent developments, including parallelization strategy considerations, examples of application, and plans for the next future.

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Marcel Carbillet, Christophe Verinaud, Mario Guarracino, Luca Fini, Olivier Lardiere, Brice Le Roux, Alfio T. Puglisi, Bruno Femenia, Armando Riccardi, Barbara Anconelli, Serge Correia, Mario Bertero, and Patrizia Boccacci "CAOS: a numerical simulation tool for astronomical adaptive optics (and beyond)", Proc. SPIE 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551552

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