Experimental comparison of a Shack-Hartmann sensor and a phase-shifting interferometer for large-optics metrology applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4540-4546

  Koch, Jeffrey A ^a   Presta, Robert W ^a   Sacks, Richard A ^a   Zacharias, Richard A ^a   Bliss, Erlan S ^a   Dailey, Michael J ^a   Feldman, Mark ^a   Grey, Andrew A ^a   Holdener, Fred R ^a   Salmon, Joseph T ^a   Seppala, Lynn G ^a   Toeppen, John S ^a   Atta, Lewis Van ^a   Van Wonterghem, Bruno M ^a   Whistler, Wayne T ^a   Winters, Scott E ^a   Woods, Bruce W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TELESCOPES;

SHACK-HARTMANN SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0000571133     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004540     Document Type: Article

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