Apodization and the point-spread autocorrelation function

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2755-2762

  Muller M ^a   Brakenhoff, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apodization; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005105141     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002755     Document Type: Article

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