Risley prisms to control wave–front tilt and displacement in a vectorial shearing interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1380-1384

  Garcia Torales, G ^a   Strojnik, M ^a   Paez, G ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; PRISMS; RAY TRACING; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT TILT;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0036507959     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001380     Document Type: Article

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