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Common usage seems to disagree with the statement that "Hartmann-Shack" is the proper term and that "Shack-Hartmann" is only used in the US: of all the links on this page to companies selling wavefront sensors, only one uses "Hartmann-Shack". One calls it simply a "wavefront sensor" and the other six (not only US companies but including German, French, Japanese, and Russian companies) use "Shack-Hartmann".

"Shack-Hartmann" gets 35400 hits on Google and "Hartmann-Shack" only 18600. The very first hit on "Hartmann-Shack" is from the University of Indiana (in the US).

In summary, I have removed the statement that "Shack-Hartmann" is only used in the US, as it seemed suspect at first glance (I do not live in the US and the only version I had heard of was "Shack-Hartmann"), and a cursory inspection showed it to be untrue. Ptomato (talk) 11:39, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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