Calibration and testing with real turbulence of a pyramid sensor employing static modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7186-7195

  Ledue, Jeffrey ^a   Jolissaint, Laurent ^b   Veran, Jean Pierre ^b   Bradley, Colin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; MODULATION; PRISMS; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

ASTRONOMICAL ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFUSING ELEMENTS; KNIFE-EDGE TEST; LINEAR DYNAMIC RANGES; MODULATION EFFECTS; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; WAVE-FRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66549088685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007186     Document Type: Article

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