Optical wavefront sensing system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4725138
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06736933

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A wavefront sensor for detecting distortion in light wavefronts is described in which the wavefront is divided into a plurality of subapertures and light amplified or intensified and imaged as spots of light from each subaperture onto a filter mask. The filter mask encodes a predetermined function of the spot intensity distributor onto the light intensity of the spot transmitted through the filter. For spot centroid calculation, the function is linearly variable. Mask embodiments include linearly varying alternate opaque and transparent chevrons, electronically variable chevrons, and quadratically varying chevrons.

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ADAPTIVE OPTICS ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED2336 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE A CORP OF MASSACHUSETTS CAMBRIDGE MA 02140-1885

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dillon, Robert F Belmont, MA 43 923
Feinleib, Julius Cambridge, MA 2 122
Hizny, John J North Billerica, MA 2 67
Rapkine, Douglas H Somerville, MA 1 63
Schmutz, Lawrence E Watertown, MA 17 685
Wirth, Allan Bedford, MA 52 2560

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