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Wavefront sensing for adaptive optics is addressed. The most popular wavefront sensors are described. Restoring the wavefront is an inverse problem, of which the bases are explained. An estimator of the slope of the wavefront is the image centroid. The Cramèr-Rao lower bound is evaluated for several probability distribution function
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Lane, R.G., Clare, R.M., van Dam, M.A. (2006). STATISTICAL WAVEFRONT SENSING. In: Foy, R., Foy, F. (eds) Optics in Astrophysics. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 198. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3437-7_24
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