Influence of seidel distortion on combining beams from a phased telescope array

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4776-4783

  Lucke, Robert L ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MIRRORS; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM-COMBINING TELESCOPES; FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); FRONT-END AFOCAL TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032607912     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004776     Document Type: Article

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