Diffractive lenses for chromatic confocal imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4744-4748

  Dobson, Sarah L ^a   Sun, Pang Chen ^a   Fainman, Yeshayahu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001604469     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004744     Document Type: Article

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