Making fast cylindrical gradient-index lenses diffraction limited by using a wave-front-correction element

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 5211-5215

  Pfeil, Albrecht V ^a   Messerschmidt, Bernhard ^a   Blümel, Veit ^a   Possner, Ulf ^a   Possner, Torsten ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

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EID: 0011762608     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005211     Document Type: Article

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