Super high resolution for long-range imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2795-2799

  Aruga, Tadashi ^a   Li, Shu Wing ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING;

GALILEAN TELESCOPES; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING; LONG-RANGE NONDIFFRACTION BEAMS (LRNB);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032620523     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002795     Document Type: Article

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