Wavefront reconstruction by modal decomposition

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 19714-19725

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Naidoo, Darryl ^b   Flamm, Daniel ^a   Schmidt, Oliver A ^a,c   Forbes, Andrew ^b,d   Duparré, Michael ^a  

^a Institute of Applied Optics   (Germany)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HOLOGRAMS;

COMPLETE INFORMATION; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; OPTICAL FIELD; POLARIZED BEAMS; POYNTING VECTORS; SHACK-HARTMANN; TRANSMISSION FUNCTION; WAVE FRONT RECONSTRUCTION;

WAVEFRONTS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOLOGRAPHY; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84865711974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019714     Document Type: Article

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