AOtools

Useful tools for Adaptive Optics analysis for the Python Programming Language. If using this code for a publication please cite the aotools paper (M. J. Townson, O. J. D. Farley, G. Orban de Xivry, J. Osborn, and A. P. Reeves, "AOtools: a Python package for adaptive optics modelling and analysis," Opt. Express 27, 31316-31329 (2019))

Required libraries

python
SciPy
NumPy
matplotlib
numba

Installation

As everything is just pure python, you don't really need to "install" at all. To be able to use the tools from anywhere on your system, add the aotools directory to your PYTHONTPATH. Alternatively you can use one of the methods below.

Anaconda

AOtools can be installed in an anaconda environment using:

conda install -c aotools aotools

Pip

AOtools can be installed using pip:

pip install aotools

(which may require admin or root privileges)

From Source

Alternatively, to install the tools to your system python distribution from source, run:

python setup.py install

(which may require admin or root privileges) from the aotools directory.

Documentation

Full documentation is hosted by Read the Docs

Usage Stats

Pip

Anaconda