Performance trade-offs for conventional lenses for free-space digital optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1240-1248

  Neilson, D T ^a   Barrett, C P ^a,b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Optoelectronics Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; LIGHT MODULATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

FIELD OF VIEW; FOCAL LENGTH; FREE SPACE DIGITAL OPTICS; IMAGE SIZE; OPTICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL CROSSBAR; OPTICAL RELAY SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SORTING NODE SYSTEM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; WAVEFRONT ERROR;

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EID: 0030102352     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001240     Document Type: Article

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