Papers Published

1. Tumbar, Remy and Stack, Ronald A. and Brady, David J., Wave-front sensing with a sampling field sensor, Applied Optics, vol. 39 no. 1 (2000), pp. 72 - 84 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/11)

   Abstract:
   We present a new type of optical wave-front sensor: the sampling field sensor (SFS). The SFS attempts to solve the problem of real-time optical phase detection. It has a high space-bandwidth product and can be made compact and vibration insensitive. We describe a particular implementation of this sensor and compare it, through numerical simulations, with a more mature technique based on the Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensor. We also present experimental results for SFS phase estimation. Finally, we discuss the advantages and drawbacks of this SFS implementation and suggest alternative implementations. © 2000 Optical Society of America.