Apodization of generalized axicons to produce uniform axial line images

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 537-548

  Popov, Sergei Yu ^a   Friberg, Ari T ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY;

APODIZATION; UNIFORM AXIAL LINE IMAGES;

HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032069241     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/7/3/014     Document Type: Article

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