Performance evaluation of spatial compounding in the presence of aberration and adaptive imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-11

  Dahl, Jeremy J ^a   Guenther, Drake ^a   Trahey, Gregg E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

1.75D Arrays; Phase Aberration; Spatial Compounding

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE IMAGINGS;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042358860     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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