Theory and laboratory demonstrations on the use of a nematic liquid-crystal phase modulator for controlled turbulence generation and adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 5579-5589

  Dayton, David C ^a   Browne, Stephen L ^b   Sandven, Steven P ^a   Gonglewski, John D ^c   Kudryashov, Alexis V ^d  

^a APPLIED TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b Optical Sciences Company   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE MODULATION; WAVEFRONTS;

DISTURBANCE GENERATOR; HARTMANN SENSOR; KOLMOGOROV STATISTICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE MODULATOR;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0032551832     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005579     Document Type: Article

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