Zernike polynomial fitting of lateral shearing interferometry

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 905-913

  Shen, Wei ^b,d   Chang, Ming Wen ^a,b,e,f,g   Wan, Der Shen ^a,b,c,g,h  

^a SPIE ^*

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Institute of Optical Sciences   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Modal estimate; Shearing interferometry; Wavefront estimate; Zernike polynomials fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002732095     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601600     Document Type: Article

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