Nonlinear common-path interferometer: An image processor

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 5091-5095

  Treviño Palacios, Carlos Gerardo ^a   Iturbe Castillo, Marcelo David ^a   Sánchez De La Llave, David ^a   Ramos García, Ruben ^a   Olivos Pérez, Luis Ignacio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS;

IMAGE PROCESSORS; PHASE DISTURBANCE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0043283231     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005091     Document Type: Article

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