Critical-point screening in random wave fields

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2892-2902

  Freund, Isaac ^a   Wilkinson, Michael ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

CRITICAL POINT SCREENING; RANDOM GAUSSIAN FIELD;

STATISTICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0032209213     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.15.002892     Document Type: Article

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