Wave-front correction and production of Zernike modes with a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1517-1524

  Love, Gordon D ^a,b,c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Liquid crystals; Spatial light modulators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001780312     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001517     Document Type: Article

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