Limiting precision of tomographic phase estimation

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 873-882

  Tokovinin, Andrei ^a   Viard, Elise ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

PHASE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0037821228     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.000873     Document Type: Article

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