A wavefront sensor based on the fractional Talbot effect

Optics Communications

Volumn 194, Issue 4-6, 2001, Pages 265-275

  Siegel, Ch ^a   Loewenthal, F ^a   Balmer, J E ^a  

^a Institute of Applied Physics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Fresnel image; Phase retrieval; Talbot effect; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; WAVEFRONTS;

FRACTIONAL TALBOT EFFECT; FRESNEL IMAGE; WAVEFRONT SENSORS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0035879479     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01288-3     Document Type: Article

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