FPGA-based simulation of 3D light propagation

Author

Kiss, A. ; Nagy, Zsolt ; Szolgay, Peter ; Roska, Tamas ; Csaba, Gyorgy ; Hu, Xiaobo Sharon ; Porod, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Comput. & Autom. Res. Inst., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2014

fDate

29-31 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper, we describe how to emulate 3D wave dynamics on a 2D FPGA-based architecture. The algorithm is based on the Paraxial Helmholtz Equation: which describes the beam propagation through different media with different refractive indices. To solve this wave propagation equation numerically the FPGA-accelerated hardware operates with spatially varying templates. The FPGA-based wave-equation solver is very well parallelizable, so the resulting algorithm will also be amenable to mega-core architectures.

Keywords

Helmholtz equations; field programmable gate arrays; light propagation; refractive index; 2D FPGA; 3D light propagation; 3D wave dynamics; FPGA-accelerated hardware; FPGA-based wave equation solver; beam propagation; field programmable gate arrays; paraxial Helmholtz equation; refractive indices; spatially varying templates; Computer architecture; Equations; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Mathematical model; Media; Three-dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), 2014 14th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Notre Dame, IN

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNNA.2014.6888601

Filename

6888601