Scale-tunable optical correlation with natural light

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 32, 2001, Pages 5911-5920

  Mínguez Vega, Gladys ^a   Lancis, Jesuús ^a   Tajahuerce, Enrique ^a   Climent, Vicent ^a   Fernaúndez Alonso, Mercedes ^a   Pons, Amparo ^b   Andreús, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT SCATTERING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF);

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0038488067     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005911     Document Type: Article

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