Correction for large aberration with phase-only liquid-crystal wavefront corrector

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Liu, YongJun ^a,b   Cao, ZhaoLiang ^a,b   Mu, QuanQuan ^a,b   Hu, Lifa ^a   Lu, XingHai ^a   Xuan, Li ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Liquid crystal; Parallel aligned; Phase only; Programmable diffractive optics; Wavefront corrector

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

PROGRAMMABLE DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; WAVEFRONT CORRECTOR;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 33847133980     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2405356     Document Type: Article

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