C-RED image acquisition

Documentation from C-RED from First Light company

DataSheet

C-RED SPIE2016

C-RED review for interferometry (SPIE2016)

C-RED wavefront sensing (SPIE2016)

FLI simulator installation notes

Notes of the C-RED simulator installation.

A) Powering the computer:

1. Operating system is Kubuntu, 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
  

Ideas

1. May be look into the idea of making tools on the real time display of the detector image