Aberrations in high aperture optical systems

Optik (Jena)

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-33

  Sheppard, C J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SPACE; NUMERICAL APERTURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 0010610232     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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