Tailoring the axial shape of the point spread function using the Toraldo concept

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 98-103

  Martinez Corral M ^a   Caballero, M T ^b   Stelzer, E H K ^c   Swoger, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FUNCTIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING;

AXIAL RESOLUTION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF); TRANSMITTANCE; TRANSVERSE RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0006019402     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000098     Document Type: Article

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