Photographic optical systems with nonrotational aspheric surfaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 3572-3592

  Plummer, William T ^a   Baker, James G ^a   Tassell, Jon Van ^a  

^a POLAROID CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; LIGHT REFRACTION;

NONROTATIONAL ASPHERIC SURFACES; ROTARY FOCUSING;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0032620726     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003572     Document Type: Article

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