Open AccessAn online emission spectral tomography system with digital signal processor
Author(s) -
Wei Xiong,
Wenlin Xiong,
Zhimin Zhang,
Chang Fangfei
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.005279
Subject(s) - digital signal processing , digital signal processor , computer science , software , tomography , computer hardware , optics , spectral density estimation , signal processing , electronic engineering , physics , fourier transform , engineering , programming language , quantum mechanics
Emission spectral tomography (EST) has been adopted to test the three-dimensional distribution parameters of fluid fields, such as burning gas, flame and plasma etc. In most cases, emission spectral data received by the video cameras are enormous so that the emission spectral tomography calculation is often time-consuming. Hence, accelerating calculation becomes the chief factor that one must consider for the practical application of EST. To solve the problem, a hardware implementation method was proposed in this paper, which adopted a digital signal processor (DSP) DM642 in an emission spectral tomography test system. The EST algorithm was fulfilled in the DSP, then calculation results were transmitted to the main computer via the user datagram protocol. Compared with purely VC++ software implementations, this new approach can decrease the calculation time significantly.