ALICE: the new infrared array control system for UKIRT

David Alan Pickup; Joel Sylvester; Magnus J. Paterson; Phil J. Puxley; Steven M. Beard; David C. Laird

doi:10.1117/12.158707

20 October 1993 ALICE: the new infrared array control system for UKIRT

David Alan Pickup, Joel Sylvester, Magnus J. Paterson, Phil J. Puxley, Steven M. Beard, David C. Laird

Proceedings Volume 1946, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158707
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We describe ALICE (Array Limited Infrared Control Environment), the new array control and data acquisition system being developed at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, for use with instruments at the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The first ALICE systems are described to control Santa Barbara Research Center (SBRC) 256 X 256 indium antimonide arrays to be installed in a near-IR camera (IRCAM) and the IR spectrometer (CGS4) at UKIRT, ALICE, however, may be reconfigured for other sizes and formats of array, its use of parallel processing techniques helping to make it a powerful, flexible and extensible system.

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David Alan Pickup, Joel Sylvester, Magnus J. Paterson, Phil J. Puxley, Steven M. Beard, and David C. Laird "ALICE: the new infrared array control system for UKIRT", Proc. SPIE 1946, Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation, (20 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158707

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