Design of three-element night-vision goggle objectives

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 622-626

  Rouke, Jennifer L ^a   Crawford, Mary Kate ^a   Fischer, David J ^a   Harkrider, Curtis J ^a   Moore, Duncan T ^a   Tomkinson, Todd H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LENSES; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY AVIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECIFICATIONS; VISION AIDS;

AVIATORS NIGHT VISION IMAGING SYSTEM; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; THREE ELEMENT NIGHT VISION GOGGLE;

GOGGLES;

EID: 0032003178     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000622     Document Type: Article

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