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(physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium

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Open loop control reshapes DMs into iterative or pre-determined geometries, while closed loop calculates geometries based on feedback from wavefront sensors.
Some of the correction technique that have been used in the wavefront sensorless correction techniques with their results is provided below.
In a perfect optical system, a spherical wavefront from an object point should converge to a single point at the desired image location, such as the retina of the eye.
The color-coded picture showed that the wavefront broke out into the LA through the Bachmann's bundle, and return to the RA over the CS from the posterior wall of LA to be a biatrial MAT.
Uflex, India's largest flexible packaging company, and US-headquartered WaveFront Technology Inc have announced an extension of their existing alliance in India to bring the manufacture of Fresnel lens packaging films to Europe.
is set to release the Holos Barrett Intraocular Lens Formula, which will be available exclusively on the Holos IntraOp Wavefront Aberrometer mid-year, the company said.
Beyond 1-day also combines the company's successful 'Tri-Channels Technology,' offering high oxygen, ion and water transmission, its advanced wavefront aspheric design and Clearlab's 'Truform Edge Design.'
The author devotes additional whole chapters to the sources of aberrations, adaptive optics compensation, adaptive optics applications and systems, wavefront sensing, wavefront correction, reconstruction and controls, and key equations used in adaptive optics.
This new version of the Aspose.3D API covers more 3D formats, including import and export of the Wavefront's OBJ, FBX 7.2 (ASCII, Binary) and FBX 7.3 (ASCII, Binary) formats.
The CATR uses a source antenna which radiates a spherical wavefront and one or more secondary reflectors to collimate the radiated spherical wavefront into a planar wavefront within the desired test zone.
Objective: To determine mean change induced in root mean square value of higher order aberrations in myopic patients undergoing wavefront optimized laser assisted in situ keratomileusis.
In what follows we address the strong wavefront distortion limit N [much greater than] 1: we reduce the problem of speckle intensity distribution to the problem of turbulent mixing by incompressible velocity field in six-dimensional phase space.