C-RED image acquisition

2017-03-02T21:37:42Z

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'''Documentation from C-RED from First Light company'''

[http://www.first-light.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Provisional-Datasheet-C-RED-2_10.10.162.pdf/ DataSheet]

[http://www.first-light.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9907-86-v2-TGR-SPIE-Astro.pdf/ C-RED SPIE2016]

[http://www.first-light.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9907-39-v3-PFE-SPIE-Astro.pdf/ C-RED review for interferometry (SPIE2016)]

[http://www.first-light.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/9909-41v1-2-RC3_JLG-SPIE-Astro.pdf/ C-RED wavefront sensing (SPIE2016)]

'''FLI simulator installation notes'''

Notes of the C-RED simulator installation.

A) Powering the computer:

1. Operating system is xubuntu, which is recommended to use at chara.

2. It booted directly, without promting the password. I saw the booting was very quick.

3. computer name:simu-desktop and user: simu

4. uname -a, command results:
Linux simu-desktop 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

5. lsb_release -a, command results:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

6. df -h, disk space
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 116G 5,4G 104G 5% /
none 4,0K 0 4,0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 3,8G 4,0K 3,8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 767M 1,2M 766M 1% /run
none 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock
none 3,8G 92K 3,8G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 20K 100M 1% /run/user

7. free -h, memeory
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7,5G 3,7G 3,8G 153M 64M 1,0G
-/+ buffers/cache: 2,6G 4,9G
Swap: 1,9G 0B 1,9G

8. cred installable sources located at: /home/simu/firstlight/

chrpath credonedemo-src-1.0.0.tgz InstallationLog.txt libQt5Core.so.5 libQt5Widgets.so.5 uninstall.dat
components.xml credone_mil.dcf libicudata.so.51 libQt5DBus.so.5 network.xml uninstall.ini
creddemo-src icons libicui18n.so.51 libQt5Gui.so.5 platforms
credoneDemo imageformats libicuuc.so.51 libQt5SerialPort.so.5 uninstall

9. credoneDemo is the real time diaplay executable for the detector.

B) Powering the first light data acquisition electronics:

The real time display has following buttons:

1) Important image acquisition settings
a) Build bias and flat. Once they are build there are other clicable options to use them.
b) Gain range selection button
c) Exposure time (co-add of frames) settings for correlation double sampling (CDS) and single readout modes.
d) Image crop option
e) Save images buffer allows to acquire detector images with a user selectable number of frames.
f) Various image display settings

2) PELTIER Cooling system:
g) power monitor
h) temperature monitor

C) Data acquisition: By changing the exposure time (or varying the number of frames), test detector images are acquired, for practice.
Test_5000.raw
Test_3000.raw
Test_1000.raw

'''Future work notes'''

1. For first phase, after discussion with John, I understand that we will replace only the detector (in C-RED one; out PICNIC). It means that we will use the existing python GUIs which are optimized for taking the background, plotting the power spectrum and the fringe searching. It means, first, I need to understand the commands working behind the FLI real time display GUI and apply them to the existing MIRC python GUI. Second, the C-RED software currently produces *.raw extension data and that needs to converted into FITS extension.

Also, C-RED data acquisition on a new computer with different camera cards. Optimize the MIRC DAQ software for the C-RED detector array and speed.

3. Second phase, upgrade and develop more appropriate GUIs in the software practices of CHARA (with GTK software).

3. Third, optics upgrades and so on.

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