Optical phase unwrapping in the presence of branch points

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6985-6998

  Venema, Todd M ^a   Schmidt, Jason D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BRANCH POINTS; OPTICAL FIELD; PHASE CORRECTIONS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; STREHL RATIOS;

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 43849113585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006985     Document Type: Article

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