Characterisation of a spinning pipe gas lens using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6663, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mafusire, Cosmas ^a,b   Forbes, Andrew ^a,b   Snedden, Glen ^a   Michaelis, Max M ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

GRIN lens; Optical wavefront; Spinning pipe gas lens; Zernike polynomials

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

OPTICAL WAVEFRONT; SPINNING PIPE GAS LENS; ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS;

LENSES;

EID: 42149097119     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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