A fast Gabor wavelet transform for high-precision phase retrieval in spectral interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14313-14321

  Bethge, J ^a   Grebing, C ^a   Steinmeyer, G ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEMODULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GABOR TRANSFORMS; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY FOR DIRECT ELECTRIC-FIELD RECONSTRUCTION (SPIDER);

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 35949000564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014313     Document Type: Article

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