Fundamental architecture of optical scanning systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 31, 1995, Pages 7307-7317

  Beiser, Leo ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser scanning; Optical scanning; Remote sensing; Scanning architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

BEAM EXPANSION; CONJUGATE IMAGE; IMAGE ROTATION; LASER SCANNING; OPTICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL SCANNING SYSTEMS; RADIALLY SYMMETRIC; TELECENTRICITY;

SCANNING;

EID: 0004011252     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.007307     Document Type: Article

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