Welcome to FIRST-PL’s documentation!

Contact: Sébastien Vievard (vievard@naoj.org)

Instrument presentation

• FIRST-PL
  
  • Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope - Photonic Lantern
• Instrument presentation
  • General information
  • Observing Modes
• Instrument performance
  • Injection efficiency

Startup

• Working with tmux shell (for remote control)
• Pre-requisites
• Real time displays setup
  • 1. start PL camera viewer
  • 2. starting the focal plane camera viewer
  • 3. Display live flux injection map
• Softwares setup
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. Starting the tip-tilt listener
  • 3. Starting the fitsmerger
  • 4. Preparing the fitslogger
  • 4. Run firstpl controller
• Optical setup
  • 1. Pick off mirror
  • 2. Starting the supercontinuum source (for calibration)
  • 3. Checking the vis block
  • 4. Flattening the DM (in case of issues)
  • 5. Operation of the Calibration Unit
  • 6. Insertion of the wollaston

Operations

• Starting the control software in terminal
  • Summary
  • Launching from the tmux
  • Main classes in software
  • Initialisation commands
• Aligning the lantern to the source
  • 1. Moving the photonic lantern manually with Zabers
  • 2. Centering with a scan using the tip/tilt
  • 3. Centering based on the display of the focal plane image
• Acquiring data
  • Using wollaston or not
  • Rolling vs Triggered mode
  • Getting data in rolling mode
  • Getting data in triggered mode
  • Setting the best exposure time
• Tracking an off-axis target
  • Synchronizing the LST
  • Synchronizing the target coordinates
  • Activate the tracking
• Closing down (End of the night)
  • Don’t forget
  • Darks and flats

Pipeline

• Data organisation
• Installation
  • Option 1: Development Installation (Recommended)
  • Option 2: Using Scripts Directly
  • Note:
• Pipeline Structure
  • Directory Organization
  • Workflow
  • Key Components
  • Requirements
• Recipes & Usage
  • runPL_dfits
  • runPL_changeKeyword.py
  • runPL_create_pixelMap.py
  • runPL_make_preproc.py
  • runPL_create_flatMap.py
  • runPL_create_waveMap.py
  • runPL_create_couplingMap.py
  • runPL_make_image.py
  • runPL_make_astrometry.py
• Practical informations
  • Getting Help
  • tmux usage
  • $DETDATA alias
  • runPL_dfits
  • runPL_changeKeyword.py
  • download all preproc data to the gravity machine

Miscellaneous

• Troubleshooting
  • Camera frozen
• Additional how-to
  • SHM Stream control
  • Create a new SHM (python code)
  • Old way to start the camera
  • Start the focal plane camera
  • Manually changing data type
• Old optimization procedure (using Zabers)
  • 1. Start the process of flux recording
  • 2. Optimization
• FIRST-PL Team

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page