Testing an off-axis parabola with a CGH and a spherical mirror as null lens

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5869, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Zhao, Chunyu ^a   Zehnder, Rene ^a   Burge, James H ^a   Martin, Hubert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CGH; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAM (CGH); NULL LENS;

ABERRATIONS; HOLOGRAMS; LENSES; MIRRORS; TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TESTING;

EID: 29144524599     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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