Lateral shearing interferometry: Theoretical limits with practical consequences

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17805-17818

  Servin, M ^a   Cywiak, M ^a   Davila A ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; TOPOLOGY;

BONUS PROPERTY; LATERAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY (LSI); SPATIAL FREQUENCY RESPONSE; WAVE-FRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 37549032172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017805     Document Type: Article

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