Programmable diffractive optics for high-fidelity wavefront control

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4825, Issue , 2002, Pages 166-176

  Gruneisen, Mark T ^a   Rotge, James R ^b   Dymale, Raymond C ^b   Lubin, Donald L ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Computer generated holography; Diffractive optics; Laser wavefront control; Non mechanical beam steering

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; FOURIER OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; WAVEFRONTS;

COMPUTER-ADDRESSABLE PHASE MODULATOR SYSTEM; HIGH-FIDELITY WAVEFRONT CONTROL; NON-MECHANICAL BEAM STEERING; PROGRAMMABLE DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036989664     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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