wavefront

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This technology is still in the early phase of development, but recent trials indicate that potential applications exist in adaptive optical systems such as the wavefront sensors used in optometry, digital video cameras, optical diffusers and emerging head-up display devices.

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  1. (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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  • “I only know what I read It might be a wavefront,” I said. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • To think that what I'm feeling could be produced by something as random as a wavefront or a supernatural event, or whatever ... It makes me feel like an experimental animal. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • Then I relocated to Wan Water where conditions are more accommodating How so The transition from rationalism to sympathy does not cross our universe in a wavefront, as dawn sweeps across a planet. —  FSF,June2005
  • This technology is still in the early phase of development, but recent trials indicate that potential applications exist in adaptive optical systems such as the wavefront sensors used in optometry, digital video cameras, optical diffusers and emerging head-up display devices. —  Nano Tech Wire
  • A wavefront sensor locks in on a reference, and the closed-loop control system sends appropriate commands to the deformable mirror for image compensation. —  optics.org all content
 

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