Special purpose computer system for flow visualization using holography technology

Opt Express. 2008 May 26;16(11):7686-92. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.007686.

Abstract

We have designed a special purpose computer system for visualizing fluid flow using digital holographic particle tracking velocimetry (DHPTV). This computer contains an Field Programmble Gate Array (FPGA) chip in which a pipeline for calculating the intensity of an object from a hologram by fast Fourier transform is installed. This system can produce 100 reconstructed images from a 1024 x 1024-grid hologram in 3.3 sec. It is expected that this system will contribute to fluid flow analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Holography / instrumentation*
  • Microcomputers*
  • Rheology / instrumentation*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Technology / instrumentation
  • User-Computer Interface*