Rician distribution to describe speckle statistics in adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 766-771

  Canales, Vidal F ^a   Cagigal, Manuel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

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EID: 0001334806     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000766     Document Type: Article

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