Role of caustics in the formation of networks of amplitude zeros for partially developed speckle fields

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 31, 2004, Pages 5744-5753

  Angelsky, Oleg V ^a   Maksimyak, Peter P ^a   Maksimyak, Alexander P ^a   Hanson, Steen G ^b   Ushenko, Yuriy A ^a  

^a CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION; TOPOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE ZEROS; CAUSTICS; MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION; SPECKLE FIELDS;

SPECKLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 9144235706     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005744     Document Type: Article

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