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Optical Axis Alignment

Optical Axis Alignment is a methodological procedure in telescope pointing calibration that establishes the precise angular orientation of a telescope's optical axis relative to its mechanical or pointing reference frame to minimize systematic directional errors in observational data.

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396

Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles

M. E. J. Friese, Timo A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg et al. · Nature · 1998 · 1K citations · Full text

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Demonstration of X-Ray Talbot Interferometry

Atsushi Momose, Shinya Kawamoto, Ichiro Koyama et al. · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 2003 · 964 citations

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Martin C. Weisskopf, H. Tananbaum, Leon P. Van Speybroeck et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2000 · 461 citations

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Fabrication of ideal geometric-phase holograms with arbitrary wavefronts

Jihwan Kim, Yanming Li, Matthew N. Miskiewicz et al. · Optica · 2015 · 409 citations · Full text

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Hubble Space Telescope characterized by using phase-retrieval algorithms

James R. Fienup, Joseph C. Marron, Timothy J. Schulz et al. · Applied Optics · 1993 · 250 citations

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  1. DL
    Dajun Liu

    Dalian Maritime University, China

    7 publications · 222 citations

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  2. NV
    Nelson V. Tabiryan

    Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements (United States), United States

    5 publications · 327 citations

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  3. HY
    Hongming Yin

    Dalian Maritime University, China

    5 publications · 112 citations

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  4. YW
    Yaochuan Wang

    Dalian Maritime University, China

    5 publications · 112 citations

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  5. LT
    Lluís Torner

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

    4 publications · 136 citations

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499

  1. NTT (Japan)

    Tokyo, Japan

    11 h-index

    40 publications

    704 citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    19 publications

    486 citations

  3. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Erlangen, Germany

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    477 citations

  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    751 citations

  5. Dalian Maritime University

    Dalian, China

    5 h-index

    20 publications

    421 citations

  6. Peking University

    Beijing, China

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    343 citations

  7. Harbin Institute of Technology

    Harbin, China

    5 h-index

    15 publications

    411 citations

  8. Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements (United States)

    Orlando, United States

    5 h-index

    26 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Optics Express

    30 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Applied Optics

    30 publications · 930 citations

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  3. Optics Letters

    16 publications · 719 citations

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  4. Applied Physics Letters

    15 publications · 533 citations

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