Wave-front generation of Zernike polynomial modes with a micromachined membrane deformable mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 6019-6026

  Zhu, Lijun ^a   Sun, Pang Chen ^a   Bartsch, Dirk Uwe ^b   Freeman, William R ^b   Fainman, Yeshaiahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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EID: 0001590719     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006019     Document Type: Article

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