Peering into darkness with a vortex spatial filter

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 497-499

  Swartzlander Jr , Grover A ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL FILTERS;

ASTRONOMY; LASER BEAMS; RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0001686133     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000497     Document Type: Article

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