Self-calibration for transmitted wavefront measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-24

  Bergner, Brent C ^a   Davies, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WAVEFRONTS;

BALL LENS; SELF CALIBRATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATION; TRANSMITTED WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENTS;

LIGHT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33846866041     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000018     Document Type: Article

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