Simple broadband implementation of a phase contrast wavefront sensor for adaptive optics

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 6240-6245

  Bloemhof, E E ^a   Wallace, J K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNIFICATION; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 11244331582     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006240     Document Type: Article

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