Adaptive imaging system for phase-distorted extended source and multiple-distance objects

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3319-3328

  Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b   Carhart, Gary W ^b   Pruidze, Dimitri V ^b   Ricklin, Jennifer C ^a   Voelz, David G ^c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPECKLE; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; BIMORPH MIRROR; IMAGE QUALITY ANALYZER; MULTIPLE DISTANCE OBJECTS; PHASE DISTORTED EXTENDED SOURCE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031146169     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003319     Document Type: Article

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