Imaging characteristics of birefringent lenses under focused and defocused condition

Optik (Jena)

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 513-520

  Sanyal, Sucharita ^a   Ghosh, Ajay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BIREFRINGENT LENSES; OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033308030     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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