Breadboard testing of a phase-conjugate engine with an interferometric wave-front sensor and a microelectromechanical systems-based spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 5585-5593

  Baker, Kevin L ^a   Stappaerts, Eddy A ^a   Gavel, Don ^a   Wilks, Scott C ^a   Tucker, Jack ^a   Silva, Dennis A ^a   Olsen, Jeff ^a   Olivier, Scot S ^a   Young, Peter E ^a   Kartz, Mike W ^a   Flath, Laurence M ^a   Krulevitch, Peter ^a   Crawford, Jackie ^a   Azucena, Oscar ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; PHASE-CONJUGATE ENGINES; VISION APPLICATIONS; WAVE-FRONTS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 8344222969     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005585     Document Type: Article

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