Integrated diffractive shearing interferometry for adaptive wavefront sensing

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 6666-6674

  Karp, Jason H ^a   Chan, Trevor K ^a   Ford, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE SENSORS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATORS; SHEARING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WAVEFRONTS;

BINARY PHASE GRATING; DIFFRACTIVE ELEMENT; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; LATERAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; SHEARING PARAMETERS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 60949111403     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006666     Document Type: Article

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