EKARUS

Simulation tools for Ekarus. Python libraries to simulate AO loops with a pyramid WFS, correcting KL modes of the turbulence.

Installation

Unfortunately, the ekarus library has quite a few dependancies, which you will need to install. The first two are required for atmospheric layer generation and synthecic influence functions generation:

pip install arte
pip install thin-plate-spline

The next two are to deal with GPU acceleration:

pip install cupy
pip install xupy

After pip installing the required dependencies, setup a conda environment:

conda create -name ekarus arte cupy xupy numpy matplotlib

You can now activate the environment:

conda acivate ekarus

Now navigate to the download directory and install the package in development mode:

cd git/ekarus
pip install -e .

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• numpy
• matplotlib
• cupy (for GPU acceleration)
• xupy (to switch between GPU/CPU)
• arte (for atmospheric layers generation)
• thin-plate-spline (for influence functions simulation)