Analysis of the disturbing diffraction orders of computer-generated holograms used for testing optical aspherics

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 2698-2708

  Lindlein, Norbert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPHERICS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCIES;

COMPUTER-GENERATED HOLOGRAMS;

HOLOGRAMS;

EID: 0009502685     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002698     Document Type: Article

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