Effects of fabrication errors on the performance of cylindrical diffractive lenses: Rigorous boundary-element method and scalar approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 28, 1998, Pages 6591-6602

  Glytsis, Elias N ^a   Harrigan, Michael E ^b   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a   Hirayama, Koichi ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^c KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0005383675     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006591     Document Type: Article

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