Optical realization of the ambiguity function of real two-dimensional light sources

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2912-2917

  Dragoman, Daniela ^a   Dragoman, Mircea ^b   Brenner, Karl Heinz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b National Institute of Research and Development in Microbiology Immunology   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PRISMS;

OPTICAL REALIZATION;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0010278895     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002912     Document Type: Article

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