Automated self-alignment procedure for optical correlators

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1782-1791

  Montes Usategui, Mario ^a   Monroe Jr , Stanley E ^b,c   Juday, Richard D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c SPIE ^*

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment procedures; Optical correlators; Optical pattern recognition; Self calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038551634     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601323     Document Type: Article

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