• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
• /
• v.13 no.4
• /
• pp.220-232
• /
• 2012

In this paper, we investigate the correlation result due to the problems of delay tracking and fringe rotation module in the VCS(VLBI Correlation Subsystem). The VCS, FX-type correlator, adopts the delay tracking and fringe rotation module in order to compensate the delay change and fringe phase of wave signal from the radio source by Doppler's effect. The phase of observed data is also compensated by means of delay tracking and fringe rotation in the correlator, but we confirmed that the phase is unstable by applying long integration period of AIPS(Astronomical Image Processing System) rather than correlator. And the delay value of observed data has the errors of several tens nanoseconds than normal case at the analysis of correlation result. In addition, we found that the phase of correlation results is not connected as the unit of FFT-segment because the initial fringe phase at the fringe rotation module is not correctly determined. In this paper, in order to solve these problems, the original direction of 90 degree phase jump is reversely modified when the bit-shift occurred at the delay tracking. And the initial fringe phase at the fringe rotation module is correctly modified by using the initial phase of observed data. In addition, the parameter calculation module was abnormally operated as designed in the fringe rotation. So, the logical program by the VCS is modified so as to calculate the parameters correctly. Through the experiments of correlation processing over the above problems, the modified proposal algorithm is adequately corrected to the data analysis results, so that the experimental results make it clear for us to operate the developed VCS hardware correlator normally.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
• /
• v.27 no.11
• /
• pp.1534-1541
• /
• 2003

A new window-based, user-friendly fringe analysis system is developed, especially for analyzing noisy interferograms. The system integrates three major techniques, that is fringe tracking, Phase shifting, and Fourier transform, into a single shell by employing a unified procedure. Since the system is made in a modular fashion and all processing modules can be shared for any technique, a user can select necessary modules and easily edit the applying order of them based on the user's analysis strategy, which should be changed depending on the noise level of the image. The system provides a high-level GUI and a variety of image handling tools and therefore users can easily access the system and produce the optimal results without giving up in the middle of a process even for severely noise-contaminated interferometric images.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
• /
• v.35 no.1
• /
• pp.45.1-45.1
• /
• 2010

한국천문연구원과 일본 국립천문대는 공동으로 한일공동VLBI상관기(Korea-Japan VLBI Correlator, KJJVC)를 개발하였다. 이 상관기는 최대 16 관측국에 대하여 16 세트의 자기상관 및 120 세트의 상호상관을 계산할 수 있다. 각 관측국당 최대 8,192 Mbits/sec의 입력 데이터를 처리할 수 있으며, 8,192개의 주파수채널을 갖는 상관 스펙트럼을 약 25.4 밀리초~수초의 적분 시간으로 출력할 수 있는데, 최대 상관 출력 속도는 1.4GB/sec이다. 한편, 이 상관기는 한국우주전파관측망(KVN) 뿐만 아니라 동아시아VLBI관측망 및 우주공간VLBI관측망의 관측 데이터도 처리할 수 있도록 설계 제작되었으며, 최대 지연 추적 범위는 ${\pm}35,000km$이며, 보상 가능한 최대 기선 속도는 7.5km/sec이다. 현재 다른 VLBI관측망에서 사용하고 있는 타 상관기의 경우 지연은 2차 미분까지 보상하고, 프린지 위상은 3 단계로 보상하고 있는 것에 비하여, 한일공동VLBI상관기에서는 지연은 3차 미분까지 보상하여 지연 잔차를 최소화하고 프린지 위상은 16 단계로 세분하여 보상 수준의 정밀도를 최대화하였다. 이러한 지연 보상 및 프린지 멈춤 알고리즘을 상세히 소개하고 그 특성 및 장점을 보고한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
• /
• v.33 no.3C
• /
• pp.255-261
• /
• 2008

Conventional look-up table(LT) has gained a lot of speed increase in generation of digital holograms for 3D objects, but it has required an enormous memory size of the LT. In this paper, a novel approach to dramatically reduce the size of the conventional LT, still keeping its advantage of fast computational speed is proposed, which is called here a N-LT(novel look-up table) method. In the proposed method, only the fringe patterns of the center points on each image plane are pre-calculated, called elemental fringe patterns and stored in the look-up table. Then, the fringe patterns for other object points on each image plane can be obtained by simply shifting this pre-calculated elemental fringe pattern according to the displaced values from the center to those points and adding them together. Some experimental results revealed that the computational speed and the required memory size of the proposed approach are found to be 48.7 times faster than that of the ray-tracing method and 217 times smaller than that of the conventional LT method, respectively.