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We examine the general problem of wavefront measurement of coherent light, and present a method for the recovery of the object field from its diffraction pattern. This method is based on the combined application of the amplitude-phase relationship of the wavefront and an iteration procedure, and is limited only by the size of the object-space aperture. The results of simultaneous as well as experimental data attest to a high accuracy for the described method.
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Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 7, pp. 26–28, July, 1994.
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Akimova, G.A., Mataibaev, V.V., Syrykh, Y.P. et al. Wavefront measurement of a field from its diffraction pattern. Meas Tech 37, 764–766 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975794
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975794