High focal depth with a pure-phase apodizer

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 5658-5662

  Wang, Haifeng ^a   Gan, Fuxi ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LENSES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

PURE-PHASE APODIZERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001313211     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005658     Document Type: Article

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