Local improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio for diffractive optical elements designed by unidirectional optimization methods

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 35, 2002, Pages 7390-7396

  Meister, Martin ^a   Winfield, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037059124     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007390     Document Type: Article

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