Real-time optical aberration correction with a ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2164-2169

  Birch, Philip M ^a,d   Gourlay, James ^a,c   Love, Gordon D ^a,b   Purvis, Alan ^a  

^a School of Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 18444366786     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002164     Document Type: Article

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