Evaluation of phase-shifting approaches for a point-diffraction interferometer with the mutual coherence function

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7499-7509

  Barchers, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Rhoadarmer, Troy A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE SHIFT; SCINTILLATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POINT-DIFFRACTION INTERFEROMETERS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037147525     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007499     Document Type: Article

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