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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Phase retrieval


 * Article Evaluation
 * As discussed in my Evaluation Assignment, this article has the basics explained well already. It could be improved by a discussion of requirements for phase retrieval, its effectiveness in different applications, and its uses.


 * Sources
 * Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 011301 (2007); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2403783

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Phase problem


 * Article Evaluation
 * The main issue with this article is that it only approaches the phase problem from the perspective of X-ray crystallography. It goes deep into crystallography but does not address how the phase problem affects other areas of optics. It also only has 1 reference and needs many more.


 * Sources
 * Physics Today 42, 11, 24 (1989); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881207
 * http://people.bu.edu/mfk/restricted566/phaseproblem.pdf

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Coherent Diffraction Imaging


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is actually pretty decent. It has some acronyms that need to be defined and it could use some updated information from the last 5 years, but otherwise it's pretty good. It has lots of sources and explains things very clearly in neatly organized sections.


 * Sources
 * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2019, 116 (10) 4018-4024; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720785116
 * Cherukara, M.J., Pokharel, R., O’Leary, T.S. et al. Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction imaging of dislocations in polycrystalline metals under tensile loading. Nat Commun 9, 3776 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06166-5

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Fourier optics


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is long and in-depth like it should be. Its main weakness are that there are not nearly enough sources for the amount of content that is there and that it is very technical and wordy. I think it would be better if the lead was rewritten in simpler language and the technical definitions and complex terms moved to later in the text.


 * Sources
 * http://www2.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/george/FO_BOOK.pdf
 * https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07161

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Optical path length


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very short and only has one source. It should include more discussion on the significance of optical path length. Additionally, the history shows that a section on the derivation of OPL was removed because it was badly formatted and unclear. I think a rewritten version of this derivation would be useful with a citation to a helpful textbook that describes the derivation more in depth.


 * Sources
 * J. E. Greivenkamp, Field Guide to Geometrical Optics, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA (2004).
 * "On the optical path length in refracting media," American Journal of Physics 86, 268 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5013008