Atmospheric phase screen generator using a "woofer-tweeter" algorithm
This Python 3 module implements the algorithm described in the paper “Simulating Large Atmospheric Phase Screens Using a Woofer-Tweeter Algorithm.” Optics Express 24, no. 20 (October 3, 2016): 23566–71. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.023566.
To see a customisable movie of the phase screens generated by this module, you can run an app over the web using Streamlit Share by following the link below:
https://share.streamlit.io/dbuscher/megascreen/tests/demos/streamlit_movie.py
Alternatively, view a short movie in a Jupyter notebook at
Requirements
The module runs under Python3 and requires numpy
and scipy
.
For running some of the example code, the astropy
library is used.
Installation
On unix-like systems do
pip3 install MegaScreen
or if that does not work because of file permission errors, then
sudo pip3 install MegaScreen
Alternatively download and unpack a copy of this repository, change the working directory to this directory and then use
pip3 install -e .
This should install the package into the Python path.
Usage
See the documentation at http://megascreen.readthedocs.io/ for a description on how to use the module.
Licensing
- The code in this repository is licenced under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
- (see LICENSE).