Comparison of optical vortex detection methods for use with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4988-5002

  Murphy, Kevin ^a   Dainty, Chris ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; OPTICAL VORTICES; POTENTIAL METHODS; SHACK-HARTMANN WAVEFRONT SENSORS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TURBULENT FIELDS; VORTEX DETECTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84857556382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004988     Document Type: Article

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