51. Digital-image capture system for the IR camera used in Alcator C-Mod
- Author
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G. A. Wurden, J.L. Terry, J. Gaffke, and Ricardo Maqueda
- Subjects
Physics ,business.product_category ,Pixel ,business.industry ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,Signal ,Digital image ,Optics ,Cardinal point ,Camera auto-calibration ,Radiance ,business ,Instrumentation ,Digital camera ,Camera resectioning - Abstract
An infrared imaging system, based on an Amber Radiance 1 infrared camera, is used at Alcator C-Mod to measure the surface temperatures in the lower divertor region. Due to the supra-linear dependence of the thermal radiation with temperature it is important to make use of the 12-bit digitization of the focal plane array of the Amber camera and not be limited by the 8 bits inherent to the video signal. It is also necessary for the image capture device (i.e., fast computer) to be removed from the high magnetic field environment surrounding the experiment. Finally, the coupling between the digital camera output and the capture device should be nonconductive for isolation purposes (i.e., optical coupling). A digital video remote camera interface (RCI) coupled to a PCI bus fiber optic interface board is used to accomplish this task. Using this PCI-RCI system, the 60 Hz images from the Amber Radiance 1 camera, each composed of 256×256 pixels and 12 bits/pixel, are captured by a Windows NT computer. An electrica...
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- 2001