Comparison of cubic B-spline and Zernike-fitting techniques in complex wavefront reconstruction

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 6954-6964

  Ares, M ^a   Royo, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFRONTS;

CUBIC B-SPLINE MODELS; POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION; SHAPE COMPLEXITY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33750541929     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006954     Document Type: Article

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