Experimental detection of optical vortices with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15448-15460

  Murphy, Kevin ^a   Burke, Daniel ^a   Devaney, Nicholas ^a   Dainty, Chris ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATCHED FILTERS; SENSORS; VORTEX FLOW;

BRANCH POINTS; CENTROIDING; DETECTION RATES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEAST-SQUARES RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL VORTICES; POTENTIAL METHODS; SHACK-HARTMANN; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; WAVE FRONT SENSORS;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 77954942500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015448     Document Type: Article

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