Zernike Polynomial and Wavefront Fitting

Optical Shop Testing: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 498-546

  Mahajan, Virendra N ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Rotationally symmetric system aberrations; Zernike annular polynomials as balanced aberrations; Zernike circle polynomials and wavefront fitting

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIALS; WAVEFRONTS;

SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS; WAVEFRONT FITTING; ZERNIKE ANNULAR POLYNOMIALS; ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 84955167057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470135976.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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