Numerical study of centroid detection accuracy for Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 614-619

  Jiang, Zhiling ^a   Gong, Shunsheng ^a   Dai, Yang ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Centroid detection; Monte Carlo simulation; Parameters optimization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFRONTS;

CENTROID ALGORITHMS; CENTROID DETECTION; PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFRONT SENSOR;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33645972583     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2005.01.008     Document Type: Article

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