Design of a four-element, hollow-cube corner retroreflector for satellites by use of a genetic algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 438-442

  Minato, Atsushi ^a   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^b  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHM; LASER METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE;

EID: 0032548382     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000438     Document Type: Article

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