Welcome to TIPTOP’s documentation!¶
In order to be able to easily predict the AO performance, we have developed this fast algorithm producing the expected Adaptive Optics (AO see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics) Point Spread Function (PSF) for any of the existing AO observing modes (Single-Conjugate-AO, Laser-Tomographic-AO, Multi-Conjugate-AO, Ground-Layer-AO), and any atmospheric conditions. This TIPTOP tool takes its roots in an analytical approach, where the simulations are done in the Fourier domain. This allows to reach a very fast computation time (few seconds per PSF with GPU acceleration), and efficiently explore the wide parameter space.
Note
This documentation is still under development. If you find confusing elements please open an issue on github and label it Documentation and assign it to @alcheffot. Also some heavy modification is to be expected in TIPTOP. The documentation will try to follow.
References¶
Reference: “TIPTOP: a new tool to efficiently predict your favorite AO PSF” SPIE 2020 (ARXIV: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2101.06486).
Contents¶
Check out the Usage section for further information, including how to install the project.