Exact two-dimensional wave-front reconstruction from lateral shearing interferograms with large shears

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 29, 2000, Pages 5353-5359

  Elster, Clemens ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; SHEARING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CIRCULAR APERTURE;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 0041780544     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005353     Document Type: Article

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