Characterizing static aberrations in liquid crystal spatial light modulators using phase retrieval

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Hart, Nathaniel W ^a,b   Roggemann, Michael C ^a   Sergeyev, Alex ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Adaptive optics; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

PHASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLMS);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 36048951538     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2767258     Document Type: Article

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