Wavefront reconstruction by spatial-phase-shift imaging interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2586-2596

  Wolfling, Shay ^a,b   Lanzmann, Emmanuel ^a   Ben Yosef, Nissim ^b   Arieli, Yoel ^a,c  

^a Nano Or Technologies   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEFRONTS;

REFERENCE-BEAM PHASE SHIFTING; SPATIAL-PHASE-SHIFT IMAGING INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUE; WAVEFRONT ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745163524     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002586     Document Type: Article

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