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analyzed in the prospective to employ the developed instrument 
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8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
This research is partially supported by the Italian Space Agency 
(ASI) under the research contract I/R/172/02. The author thanks 
A. Barducci for his interest on Fourier Optics and his precious 
reviewing of the presented work. This paper would not have 
possible without the contribution of I. Pippi of the “Nello 
Carrara" Applied Physics Institute. I gratefully acknowledge the 
help of F. Castagnoli, M. Morandi and D. Guzzi and for 
everyone else involved in making this experiment possible.