Adaptive-optics system with liquid-crystal phase-shift interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3409-3414

  Chung, Cheng Ying ^a   Cho, Keng Chi ^b   Chang, Chih Chiang ^a   Lin, Cheng Hsiang ^b   Yen, Wei Chung ^c   Chen, Shean Jen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEFRONTS;

MACH-ZEHNDER RADIAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE ERROR; PHASE INFORMATION; PHASE-SHIFT INTERFEROMETER; PHASE-SHIFT INTERFEROMETRY(PSI); WAVEFRONT DISTORTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 33745772964     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003409     Document Type: Article

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