yao

Introduction

These pages present information about yao version 3.3.2 (released 2004aug02), a simulation tool for Adaptive optics (AO) systems. YAO is now at version 4.0, and includes a nice new GUI (pygtk based). I have not updated these pages accordingly, so some of this information might be obsolete, and these is a lot of missing things.

This package is loosely inherited from "simul.pro", an IDL set of routines that I wrote many years ago and have been put to use in a lot of places, but it is much more versatile and yet, faster. Yao is open source, although I have not yet bothered to put the legal license in there. You are welcome to use it, expand it and even distribute it, but please link back to this page, as I will be releasing updates regularly.

Main features

Yao is a Monte-Carlo AO simulation tool. It uses a number of custom developed functions to simulate the wavefront sensor (WFS), the deformable mirror (DM) and many other aspects of an AO loop.

Highlights

The following other capabilities are supported:

Other remarks and shorcomings:

Where to start?

Browse this site. Have a look at the Example & Scripts and Screenshots pages. If you like what you see, go to the Installation page and follow the instructions.

Once the package is installed, follow the examples, and then edit your own parfiles to modelize your system.

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