Examination of singular scalar light fields using wavelet processing of fork fringes

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 773-781

  Patorski, Krzysztof ^a   Pokorski, Krzysztof ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MODULATION; PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMATION; NORMALIZED GRADIENT; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE CALCULATION; PHASE SINGULARITIES; VORTEX DETECTION; WAVELET PROCESSING;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79951982941     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000773     Document Type: Article

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