Improved Saunders method for the analysis of lateral shearing interferograms

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1954-1961

  Nomura, Takashi ^a   Okuda, Seiichi ^a   Kamiya, Kazuhide ^a   Tashiro, Hatsuzo ^a   Yoshikawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SHEAR WAVES; WAVEFRONTS;

INTERFEROGRAMS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0036542750     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001954     Document Type: Article

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