Analytical expressions for the wave-front aberration coefficients of a tilted plane-parallel plate

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 32, 1997, Pages 8459-8467

  Braat, Joseph ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Geometrical optics; Optical design; Optical storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001468644     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008459     Document Type: Article

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