Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), 2014 14th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Notre Dame, IN
DOI :
10.1109/CNNA.2014.6888601
