Calibration of a Shack-Hartmann sensor for absolute measurements of wavefronts

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6419-6425

  Chernyshov, Alexander ^a,b   Sterr, Uwe ^a   Riehle, Fritz ^a   Helmcke, Jürgen ^a   Pfund, Johannes ^c  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c OPTOCRAFT GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEFRONTS;

COLLIMATED LASER BEAMS; SPHERICAL WAVEFRONTS; WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 27944445853     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006419     Document Type: Article

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