Wave-front slope estimation

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1319-1324

  van Dam, Marcos A ^a   Lane, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; WAVEFRONTS;

FOCAL PLANES (FP);

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

EID: 0001070704     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.001319     Document Type: Article

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