An augmented wavelet reconstructor for atmospheric tomography

TL;DR

This paper introduces an augmented wavelet-based atmospheric tomography reconstructor that reduces computational iterations by 50% using Krylov subspace recycling, enabling real-time performance for extremely large telescopes.

Contribution

The paper presents an augmented FEWHA algorithm with Krylov subspace recycling to significantly decrease iteration count and improve efficiency for atmospheric tomography in large telescopes.

Findings

Reduced PCG iterations by 50% with the new method.

Parallel implementation meets real-time constraints of ELT.

Enhanced efficiency of wavelet-based atmospheric tomography reconstructor.

Abstract

Atmospheric tomography, i.e. the reconstruction of the turbulence profile in the atmosphere, is a challenging task for adaptive optics (AO) systems of the next generation of extremely large telescopes. Within the community of AO the first choice solver is the so called Matrix Vector Multiplication (MVM), which directly applies the (regularized) generalized inverse of the system operator to the data. For small telescopes this approach is feasible, however, for larger systems such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the atmospheric tomography problem is considerably more complex and the computational efficiency becomes an issue. Iterative methods, such as the Finite Element Wavelet Hybrid Algorithm (FEWHA), are a promising alternative. FEWHA is a wavelet based reconstructor that uses the well-known iterative preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method as a solver. The number of floating point operations and memory usage are decreased significantly by using a matrix-free representation of the forward operator. A crucial indicator for the real-time performance are the number of PCG iterations. In this paper, we propose an augmented version of FEWHA, where the number of iterations is decreased by $50\%$ using a Krylov subspace recycling technique. We demonstrate that a parallel implementation of augmented FEWHA allows the fulfilment of the real-time requirements of the ELT.